# Improve your Android build times

DevFeed: [Improve your Android build times](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/improve-your-android-build-times-31880.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://okmanideep.me/improve-your-android-build-times/>)

Author: Manideep Polireddi

Published: 2016-04-05T20:10:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [@okmanideep](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/okmanideep.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [build performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-performance.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-performance.md>), [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [dry-run](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dry-run.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents ways to reduce Android and Gradle build times, including using a Gradle daemon, upgrading Gradle, using JDK 8, enabling parallel execution for standalone modules, and avoiding dynamic dependencies and expensive repository computations.

## Source excerpt

Simple things you can do to improve your gradle/android build time a lot