Android Studio Gradle Build takes more than 5 minutes

Question

So I have been working on a simple app in Android Studio and since last couple of days, whenever I click \"Run\", it takes more than 5 minutes to build. It didn\'t used to be th

Answer 1

Enable "Dex In Process" for faster app builds (for Android Studio 2.1).

increase the amount of memory allocated to the Gradle Daemon VM by 1 Gb, to a minimum of 2 Gb, using the org.gradle.jvmargs property:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m

Read about it here: Faster Android Studio Builds with Dex In Process