Gradle 3.0 and beyond for Android Development

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Gradle 3.x adds concrete, measurable improvements: Daemon-by-default keeps JVM warm for faster runs; remote and local build cache (experimental in 3.5, enabled with --build-cache) stores task outputs so a clean build can reuse CI or teammate outputs; compile avoidance and incremental compilation skip recompiling consumers when a library’s ABI is unchanged. Worker API runs tasks in parallel, and build scans capture full build traces. Examples show multi‑minute builds dropping to tens of seconds and some edits reducing execution to ~1–2 seconds.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:16Demo
3. 7:10Incremental builds
4. 24:34Compile avoidance & incremental compiler
5. 40:28Composite builds

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