# Celebrating the release of Android Studio Electric Eel

DevFeed: [Celebrating the release of Android Studio Electric Eel](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/celebrating-the-release-of-android-studio-electric-eel-15574.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/celebrating-the-release-of-android-studio-electric-eel>)

Author: Roger Hu

Published: 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Android Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-studio.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Android Gradle Plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-gradle-plugin.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-gradle-plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-gradle-plugin.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes how Android Studio Electric Eel's parallel project import feature reduced average sync time for its apps with more than 3,000 Gradle subprojects from 9 minutes to 3.5 minutes, a reported 60% improvement.

## Source excerpt

How the update helps speed up our import times by 60%