Offline Gradle, increasing memory in gradle.properties
file, disabling Instant Run
First, click on File -> Settings -> Plugins
to open dialog like this.
The Plugins section in Settings in Android
Now, disable or Check Off
all the plugins which not usable for you. I have disabled following:
Now, you dialog will be something like this:
The Plugins section after disabling some plugins in Settings in Android
Now, click Apply -> OK
and restart Android Studio. You’ll feel the difference instantly I bet.
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An easier way to accomplish this is to go to: Open Module Settings (your project) > Project Structure
In Gradle version and enter 2.10
Changing the Gradle version in Project Structure dialog
Download Gradle Release distributive from https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip
And copy it to the Gradle folder:
Last step is to add your discribution in Settings > Gradle
Don’t forget to click Apply to save changes.
Offline mode tells Gradle to ignore update-to-date checks. Gradle asks for dependencies everytime and having this option makes it just uses what is already on the machine for dependencies.
2. Go to Compiler from android studio Setting and add “— offline” in command-line box and click Compile independent modules in parallel.
Gradle options: Compiling in parallel and Offline mode
The next step is to enable the Gradle daemon and parallel build for your project. Parallel builds will cause your projects with multiple modules (multi-project builds in Gradle) to be built in parallel, which should make large or modular projects build faster.
These settings could enabled by modifiing a file named gradle.properties in Gradle scripts directory(i.e., ~/.gradle/gradle.properties).Some of these options (e.g. Complie modules in parallel) are available from Android Studio and also enabled there by default, but putting them in the gradle.properties file will enabled them when building from the terminal and also making sure that your colleagues will use the same settings. But if you’re working on a team, sometimes you can’t commit this stuff.
# When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode. # This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit org.gradle.parallel=true
# When set to true the Gradle daemon is used to run the build. For local developer builds this is our favorite property. # The developer environment is optimized for speed and feedback so we nearly always run Gradle jobs with the daemon. org.gradle.daemon=true
Using the daemon will make your builds startup faster as it won’t have to start up the entire Gradle application every time. The Gradle Daemon is not enabled by default, but it’s recommend always enabling it for developers’ machines (but leaving it disabled for continuous integration servers). FAQ about this mode could be found here https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_daemon.html.
The parallel builds setting could be unsafe for some projects. The requirement is that all your modules must be decoupled or your build could fail (see http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects for details).
You can speed up your builds by turning on incremental dexing. In your module’s build file:
Add this option to your android block:
dexOptions { incremental true }
In that dexOptions block you can also specify the heap size for the dex process, for example:
dexOptions { incremental true javaMaxHeapSize "12g" }
Where “12g” is 12GB of memory. Additional information about this could be found here google.github.io/android-gradle-dsl/current/
You can also configure Gradle parameters in the settings file, e.g. increase the max heap size in case you have a large project:
# Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process. # The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings. # Default value: -Xmx10248m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
See all list of parameters here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/userguide_single.html#sec:gradle_configuration_properties for details.
Consider to exclude project and cache files from antivirus scanning. This is obviously a trade off with security. But if you switch between branches a lot, then antivirus will rescan files before allowing gradle process to use it, which slows build time (in particular Android Studio sync project with gradle files and indexing tasks). Measure build time and process CPU with and without antivirus enabled to see if it is related.
I hope this helps. Leave a comment if you have any question or some other tips for improving the build performance.
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1) in AndroidStudio's settings > compile
enable checkbox named Compile independent modules in parallel
.
2) Under Help> Edit Custom VM Options
I have:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m # <------ increase this to most of your RAM
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=440m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
P.S. - Some people say Note, instead of VM options, it's better to combine can be overriden by combining those lines into one line single command in gradle.properties, like this :
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xms1024m -Xmx4096m ......
3) I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs command line option I have only --offline
(which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources). I also enabled the remaining checkboxes and now it's running ok:
Make project automatically
Use in-process building Configure on demand
Check the AndroidStudio's settings, under compile that the checkbox Compile independent modules in parallel
is enabled.
Under Vmoptions I have
-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024
I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs commandline option I have only --offline
, which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources. I enabled also the remaining checkboxes:
Configure on demand
and it is running ok
Edit
It is possible to provide additional options through studio.vmoptions
located at (just replace X.X with version):
Windows: go to %USERPROFILE%\.AndroidStudioX.X\studio.exe.vmoptions
(or studio64.exe.vmoptions
)
Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/.AndroidStudioX.X/studio.vmoptions
Linux: ~/.AndroidStudioX.X/studio.vmoptions
(and/or studio64.vmoptions
)
Increasing the value of -Xmx
should help a lot. E.g
-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
will assign 4G as max heap, with initial value of 1G
Edit:
On windows the defaults are stored into C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin\*.vmoptions
. The IDE allows you to tweak those values through Help->Edit Custom VM options
(thanks to @Code-Read
for pointing it out).
EDIT 2:
Android studio 3.5 makes easier to change same of those values. Just go to:
Preferences > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Memory Settings