I'll second that Android Studio has absurdly slow builds times. It's not pretty common to have 2+ minute build times, and I'm using a MBPr mid 2015. I actually

I'll second that Android Studio has absurdly slow builds times. It's not pretty common to have 2+ minute build times, and I'm using a MBPr mid 2015. I actually asked an Android frameworks engineer about this, and it seems like this is not an uncommon problem. The instant run in AS2 helps a lot, but without it, build times are unbearable.