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I’m trying to use Android Studio, and the first time I boot it up, it takes like 45 MINUTES to compile… If I don’t quit the application, it is okay – each subsequent compilation/running the app will take like 45 seconds.

I’ve tried to check some of my caches: there’s a .gradle/caches folder in my home directory, and it’s like 123 MB large.

There’s also a .gradle folder in my project folder… one of the taskArtifacts was like 200 MB. I’m scared to just randomly nuke them both. What parts of the folders are safe to delete?

Gradle Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code Build Task

Is there a better explanation for why my Android Studio is taking forever to run the gradle assemble task upon first time loading the application?

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Do I also have to clear the intellij cache too?

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You can safely delete the whole .gradle folder located under project directory. It’ll be recreated every time the tasks are run. The same is for .gradle under home directory. It’ll also be recreated as well, but the whole dependencies must be downloaded again – it’s quite time-consuming.

As I see in various places over the web gradle for android development is quite slow and people complain about it. No idea what’s reason exactly – this is how it works.

I don’t think that low performance is because of big folders. Actually they help it to be faster.

As @Bradford20000 pointed out in the comments, there might be a gradle.properties file as well as global gradle scripts located under $HOME/.gradle. In such case special attention must be paid when deleting the content of this directory.
The cache directory holds the Gradle build cache. So if you have any error about that you can delete that. It’s on .gradle/cache

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You can do it on Android Studio

To clean out the system caches:

On the main menu, choose File | Invalidate Caches/Restart. The
Invalidate Caches message appears informing you that the caches will
be invalidated and rebuilt on the next start. Use buttons in the
dialog to invalidate caches, restart IntelliJ IDEA or both.

Update: above method will clear Android Studio cache, not gradle cache. Gradle cache locates at

  • On Windows: %USER_HOME%.gradle/caches
  • On Mac/Unix: $HOME/.gradle/caches/

You can browse to these directory and manually delete it or run

on Unix system. Run this command will also force to download dependencies.

Update 2:Clear build cache of current project

On Windows:

On Mac or Linux:

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newest solution using gradle task

cleanBuildCache

available via android plugin for Gradle, revision 2.3.0 (February 2017)

Dependencies:

  1. Gradle 3.3 or higher.
  2. Build Tools 25.0.0 or higher.

more at:

background

Build cache:

stores certain outputs that the Android plugin generates when building your project (such as unpackaged AARs and pre-dexed remote dependencies). Your clean builds are much faster while using the cache because the build system can simply reuse those cached files during subsequent builds, instead of recreating them. Projects using Android plugin 2.3.0 and higher use the build cache by default. To learn more, read Improve Build Speed with Build Cache.

Note: The cleanBuildCache task is not available if you disable the build cache.

usage:

windows

linux / mac

android studio / inteliij

**gradle/gradlew are system specific files containing scripts
– please see system info how execute script

  1. linux – https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-run-a-script-in-linux/
  2. windows – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613481(v=vs.85).aspx
  3. mac https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/index.html
Answers:

Close the projects which are open inside android studio and just delete .gradle and
.Android(studio version) folders in root directory(for me c://users)
and start your android studio.

This worked for me, Thank you .

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Gradle Visual Studio Code

Yeoman Support

Warning! At the time of this writing, this extension is broken

Visual Studio Code has a Yeoman extension, which should help you run JHipster commands.

Visual Studio Code Gradle Project

You can install it by using the Visual Studio Code marketplace:

Java Code Support

Visual Studio Code has a Java extension developed by Red Hat. It has a good Java support, using Maven or Gradle.

Gradle Visual Studio Code

You can install it by using the Visual Studio Code marketplace:

Common tasks: compiling, running and packaging the code

The Visual Studio Code Java extension can’t be used to run commands: it can’t compile, run the code, or package the application.

For all those tasks, there are 2 solutions:

Visual Studio Code Gradle Support

  • Use the terminal, for instance the internal terminal provided by Visual Studio Code, to run those commands manually
  • Use the JHipster App, which offers a graphical interface for all those commands. Note: JHipster App is deprecated.

Application “hot restart” with Spring Boot devtools

Spring Boot devtools is configured by JHipster, and will “hot restart” your application when classes from your project are compiled. This is a must-have feature, as it makes your application updated on the fly.

Java Gradle Visual Studio Code

To use it within Visual Studio Code, you need to:

  • Run your application in a terminal, typically by typing ./mvnw
  • In another terminal, compile your application: ./mvnw compile

In the first terminal, your JHipster application should automatically redeploy, and use your new code.

If you use the JHipster App, this is only a matter of clicking on 2 buttons (one for running the application, the other for compiling it), and your application will automatically redeploy in the same way.

Custom settings

Using Gradle With Vscode

For best performance, it’s recommended to exclude some folders, in your project’s .vscode folder create a settings.json file as below: