Android Studio Gradle Build takes more than 5 minutes

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So I have been working on a simple app in Android Studio and since last couple of days, whenever I click "Run", it takes more than 5 minutes to build. It didn't used to be this slow. I don't know why. It says "Gradle Build Running" and then app is loaded after 5 minutes. And this happens on both the emulator and on my android device. My grade version is 2.10 I looked up this issue and I have tried everything that other similar posts have suggested including:

Adding --parallel and --offline to command line option settings
Enabling 'offline work' in Gradle setting
Adding org.gradle.daemon=true in gradle.properites file

Below are the screen shots.

Even after doing all these, my grade build takes 5+ minutes. This is what was there in the event log:

10:27:57 AM Executing tasks: [:app:clean, :app:generateDebugSources,     :app:mockableAndroidJar, :app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies,  :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources, :app:assembleDebug]
10:34:24 AM Gradle build finished in 6m 26s 378ms

Any suggestions will be helpful. Thanks in advance :)

Have posted a similar question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37247256/decreasing-android-studio-2-1-build-time/37253276#37253276 — praticus, May 16 '16 at 14:42
I tried what both comments suggested on that post and still no luck — Parth Bhoiwala, May 16 '16 at 14:51
I am currently running the app on Nexus 5 API 23 x86 (Android 6.0). But Gradle Build takes same amount of time (5 mins) when I run it on my Samsung phone using USB. — Parth Bhoiwala, May 16 '16 at 15:15
I have seen this problem before . You can check this http://stackoverflow.com/a/36533928/5037958 — Mehdi Jahed Manesh, May 23 '16 at 09:13

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '16 at 15:02

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Enable "Dex In Process" for faster app builds (for Android Studio 2.1).

increase the amount of memory allocated to the Gradle Daemon VM by 1 Gb, to a minimum of 2 Gb, using the org.gradle.jvmargs property:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m

Read about it here: Faster Android Studio Builds with Dex In Process

answered May 16 '16 at 15:02

jayeshsolanki93

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I already have that line of code in my gradle.properties folder: it looks like this "org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" – Parth Bhoiwala May 16 '16 at 15:08
Yes, but that line is commented by default. Add `org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m` below it. I tried it in a project of mine, build time significantly decreased. It reduced from 17 seconds to 8 seconds. – jayeshsolanki93 May 16 '16 at 17:07
I am having the same issue and I tried adding that line, no luck :( – May 18 '16 at 15:37
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I added the line "org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m" but it doesn't seem to have any effect. It still takes 5+ mins to build. – Parth Bhoiwala May 18 '16 at 15:39
where i added org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m in gradle.properties – Amey Bawiskar Feb 11 '17 at 11:52
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Worked a treat - thanks! I also followed the advice here and used the Offline Setting and additional arguments in the gradle.properties file - this took my build from over 8 minutes to around 4 seconds. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29391421/android-studio-gradle-takes-too-long-to-build – vinnyh Dec 11 '18 at 17:22

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '16 at 16:28

Other solutions here have not helped me yet. I am seeing builds lasting 30+ minutes only to end with Error:Out of memory: GC overhead limit exceeded. But I have made slight progress the past few days.

Note: I do not believe this is a solution to the problem, just a workaround until Jack works out the kinks

I added the following to my build gradle:

android {
    ....
  defaultConfig {
    ....
    jackOptions {
            enabled true
            additionalParameters('jack.incremental': 'true')
        }
    }

    compileOptions {
        incremental true
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    dexOptions {
        javaMaxHeapSize '4096m'
    }

}

For some reason, adding

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

to my gradle.properties made no difference. I had to add it in the dexOptions.

I'm getting the `Error:Gradle DSL method not found: 'additionalParameters()'` — Relm, Dec 13 '16 at 08:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 21 '19 at 12:25

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In gradle.properties you can try using:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m
org.gradle.caching=true

Hope this helps !!

edited Mar 21 '19 at 12:25

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answered Mar 21 '19 at 11:52

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Android Studio Gradle Build takes more than 5 minutes

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