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I've used ninja and gyp for building Android apps. It is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than Gradle.

• moonbug 11y ago
  About all that can be said for Gradle is that it makes Maven seem tolerable.
  • pjmlp 11y ago
    I don't really get the hype about Gradle. For those of us without XML phobia, it doesn't offer any benefit and is slow as molasses.
    • rquirk 11y ago
      You can speed it up somewhat by tweaking ~/.gradle/gradle.properties and adding org.gradle.daemon=true and org.gradle.parallel=true. That way at least it doesn't have to re-read all the build files each time and will run some parts in parallel. The benefit wrt the old Ant-based build is the way it lets you specify 3rd party dependencies. Being able to just add in say Timber, ButterKnife and Guava with a few lines of config, rather than downloading the jars, faffing with paths, making sure the pre-processing bits are in place, etc, is really a big benefit. Maybe Maven would have been a more sensible choice, since Gradle/Groovy seems pretty niche and not really used that much outside Android.
      • pjmlp 11y ago
        > ... since Gradle/Groovy seems pretty niche and not really used that much outside Android. This is the only reason I am now forced to deal with it. On our enterprise Java projects it is all about Ant and Maven.
• oscargrouch 11y ago
  in Chromium now, there´s GN to auto-generate only ninja files.. unlike GYP that can generate for several backends like CMake
• jre 11y ago
  Do you have an example gyp file for Android that you could share ?
• mlvljr 11y ago
  Decimal magnitude?