Build managers
Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 4 11:26:10 PST 2015
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 18:49:25 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:20 +0000, Paulo Pinto via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>> From my little experience with Gradle as part of Android
>> Studio,
>> be prepared for increased build times and CPU load vs Ant.
>
> I am just about to start doing things with Android now I can use
> Kotlin and Groovy to program the applications (*). I had
> assumed,
> because Android Studio is really IntelliJ IDEA, that people
> would use
> the build in project creation to make an IDEA project form the
> Gradle
> file. Any lengthy compilation of Android Studio over the old
> Eclipse
> thing should be an Eclipse vs IntelliJ IDEA thing, not a
> Groovy/Gradle
> thing. On the other hand if you use the Gradle build always
> then I can
> imagine slow start up the first time since it has to start the
> Gradle
> server.
>
> (*) I find Java 6 an appalling language. Android is getting
> some Java
> 7, but I want Java 8 and beyind, now. Kotlin and (static) Groovy
> provide this.
Well, it just manages to make my fan jump to airplane ready to
takeoff mode.
Improving Gradle performance is part of the Android Studio
roadmap.
http://tools.android.com/roadmap
--
Paulo
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