Performance tweaks for Android Studio and Gradle by Samuel Dionne

Android Studio is an awesome tool for Android development, but it may be sluggish at times. We’ll explore some of the ways you can tweak it to make it faster. AS is not the only culprit when it comes to performance. Gradle builds are sometimes, nay, always slow but there are some parameters we can use to improve its performance. When everything else fails, raw power does it.

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studio64.vmoptions
-Xms3g
-Xmx3g
-XX:NewRatio=3
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=480m
-XX:MetaspaceSize=512m
-Xss16m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-Dfile.encoding=UTF
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-server

gradle.properties
android.enableJetifier=true
android.useAndroidX=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2560M -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options="-Xmx2560M" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.caching=true
kapt.incremental.apt=true
kapt.use.worker.api=true
kapt.include.compile.classpath=false

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1. Performance tweaks for AS and Gradle 12 + 1 tips to make your life better
2. Samuel Dionne Transit Android development for 10 years Started on Eclipse AS + Gradle is still painful
3. 7 Gradle tips 5 Android Studio tips
4. 7 Gradle tips 5 Android Studio tips
5. 1. Disable Plugins File > Settings > Plugins
6. 2. Custom VM Options Help > Edit Custom VM Options
7. Here is the content of my studio64.vmoptions # custom Android Studio VM options, see https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/studio-config.html -Xms3g -Xmx3g -XX:NewRatio=3 -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=480m -XX:MetaspaceSize=512m -Xss16m -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dfile.encoding=UTF -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50 -server
8. 3. No dynamic version in gradle dependencies
9. 4. Experiment settings File > Settings > Experimental
10. 5. Memory indicator File > Settings > Appearance
11. 7 Gradle tips 5 Android Studio tips
12. 1. Disable PNG Cruncher buildTypes.debug.crunchPngs
13. 1. Disable PNG Cruncher File > Settings > Plugins Better Yet! Convert all images to WebP*
14. 2. Disable Crashlytics Build Id ext.alwaysUpdateBuildId
15. 2. Disable Crashlytics BuildId build.gradle Better Yet! Disable Crashlytics completely ext.enableCrashlytics
16. 3. Enable daemon org.gradle.daemon
17. 4. Parallel build org.gradle.parallel
18. 5. Caching* org.gradle.caching
19. 6. Memory params org.gradle.jvmargs
20. Here is the content of my gradle.properties android.enableJetifier=true android.useAndroidX=true org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2560M -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options="-Xmx2560M" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 org.gradle.daemon=true org.gradle.parallel=true org.gradle.caching=true kapt.incremental.apt=true kapt.use.worker.api=true kapt.include.compile.classpath=false
21. 7. Offline mode File > Settings > Build > Gradle
22. 5 Android Studio tips 7 Gradle tips
23. 5 Android Studio tips 7 Gradle tips Please make it even FASTER
24. 5 Android Studio tips 7 Gradle tips 50k Mac Pro
25. 5 Android Studio tips 7 Gradle tips Steal CPU and Memory 50k Mac Pro
26. 5 Android Studio tips 7 Gradle tips 50k Mac Pro Steal CPU and Memory Rent a Big Server
27. 1. Copy our local files to the server
28. 1. Copy our local files to the server 2. Run gradle build on the server
29. 1. Copy our local files to the server 7. Offline mode File > Settings > Build > Gradle 3. Copy the results files locally
30. Gradle plugin Mirakle github.com/Instamotor-Labs/mirakle
31. - 3x faster incremental build - 5x faster full build - Shared C++ cache - Shared Gradle build cache (coming soon) - 6 person team == lot of minutes saved
32. Thank you for listening Questions?