gradle-build-performance

What problem does it solve?

Android/Gradle projects often suffer from slow builds due to long configuration phases, non-incremental tasks, and ineffective caching. This Skill provides a structured approach to measure, diagnose, and optimize build performance.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Baseline measurement and profiling of Gradle builds to identify time sinks in configuration or execution
• Build scan analysis and performance reporting to pinpoint bottlenecks in CI/CD, parallelization, and caching
• Targeted optimizations such as enabling Gradle configuration cache, build cache, parallel execution, and incremental annotation processing
• Use case: Large Android projects or monorepos where reducing build times accelerates development and release cycles

Quick Start

Use the gradle-build-performance skill to measure a baseline by running a clean build and an incremental build, then generate a build scan to observe performance trends. Then apply one optimization (for example enabling configuration cache in gradle.properties) and re-measure to verify improvements.