We dug a little deeper and realized that things happening in our ecosystem are causing build to slow down faster than we can improve. If builds are indeed getting faster with each release, and we can see it in our data, why are they still getting slower over time? The first thing we did was to create internal benchmarks* using open source projects ( SignalAndroid, Tachiyomi, SantaTracker & skeleton of Uber) to measure the build speed impact of various changes to the project (code, resources, manifest etc).įor example, here is the benchmark looking at build speed impact of code change, showing great improvement over time. * This is possible thanks to many developers opting-in to sharing their usage statistics with us in “preference > data sharing” Measuring speed differently In this article, we’ll share some of the new analytics* we’ve put in place to better pinpoint what is really affecting build speed and share more about what we’re doing about it, as well as what you can do today to help prevent your build from slowing down.

From various discussions and surveys with developers, we know that waiting for slow build speed takes away from that productivity. In Android studio, we want to make you the most productive developer you can be.

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