Is your Gradle build taking too long time? These 30 ideas can help you to optimize your slow Gradle build on Android and non-android projects.
1. Use the latest dependencies versions
If you stay up to date with your dependencies, you will get all the enhancements and optimizations they have to offer. Using the latest Gradle, Android Gradle plugin & Kotlin Gradle plugin versions can help a lot to reduce your build speed. But other dependencies upgrades, mainly Gradle plugins, are also important.
Keeping your Gradle project dependencies up to date can be a huge manual task if you have a big project. It’s a bit tedious for developers to manually check for dependencies upgrades, causing a lot of waste of time. The Releases Hub Gradle Plugin helps developers to keep their dependencies up to date.