gradle-build-performance

Speed up slow Android Gradle builds by measuring baseline build times, generating a build scan to diagnose bottlenecks, and applying targeted optimizations like the configuration cache, build cache, and parallel execution to reduce overall build time.

A Gradle build scan is a diagnostic report needed when pinpointing exact build performance bottlenecks. You need it to analyze initialization, configuration, and execution phases, allowing you to identify exactly where time is lost before applying targeted build cache or parallel execution optimizations.

Yes, this approach works for optimizing Gradle builds in CI/CD pipelines. It specifically targets slow clean builds, incremental builds, and CI/CD pipelines by measuring baselines, applying configuration and build cache optimizations, and validating improvements through before and after timing profiles.

Diagnose Gradle configuration cache bottlenecks by generating a build scan to analyze the initialization, configuration, and execution phases. Once bottlenecks are identified, apply targeted optimizations and validate improvements using before and after timing profiles to ensure stability.

The best way to measure Android incremental build performance improvements is by recording baseline build times for clean versus incremental builds, applying targeted optimizations, and then validating the improvements with before and after timing profiles generated from a build scan.