Google should pay us for every second we waste by running a Gradle build in Android Studio.

Legit just spend way too long fighting with gradle..

That's absolutely true :D
Anyway They say the next version of gradle will be faster... hope its true

@Pythoneer lool 😂
did your kids ever witnessed the build?

@Pythoneer That's a damn funny comment 😂.
Anyway,gradle daemon is a bit faster

@bdhobare what is that ?

@codeBoy Gradle daemon is a long running process is the background.It can improve build times because of 2 reasons:
1. You don't have to wake up the JVM each time you build
2.The project is cached in memory, therefore subsequent builds build upon previous previous

@bdhobare thats good... how can i use that ?

@bdhobare unfortunately our project was using multiDex. That slowed down the build.

@tahnik yeah ,i agree ,multi dex is slow af.

@codeBoy To use gradle daemon
-go to /home/username/.gradle
-open or create a file gradle.properties
- Add this line to the file "org.gradle.daemon=true"

Next time you build, gradle will use the daemon.
However it usually stops after a long time of not using it.(like 3 hours)

@bdhobare thanks dear for your help:)

I read that gradle builds can be done also from command line using a gradle script in the project folder
Would that be faster or this is irrelevant ?

@codeBoy Yea.. you can build from the terminal.Go to your project root and type ./gradlew <task>
You can find tasks with gradlew tasks.

IMO.. executing from the terminal doesn't have any extraordinary advantages.In fact it's harder to deploy your app that way.

@bdhobare you are a very helpful guy ☺ thanks my friend