Build managers

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

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