Extremely long build with Gradle (Android Studio)

Question

right now we are in a situation of having build times 2 minutes 30 seconds for very simple change. This (compared to ANT) is amazingly slow and is killing the productivity o

Answer 1

Our team was facing the same issue. Our project exceeds the method limit for dex(>65k). So, in out library project we put below options in build.gradle:

dexOptions {
    jumboMode = true
    preDexLibraries = false
}

In our project build.gradle:

 dexOptions {
    jumboMode = true
//  incremental true
}

previously we had incremental true. after commenting it its taking around 20s to run as compared to 2mins 30 seconds. I don't know this may solve your problem. but it can help to others. :)