We are building a bit larger and more complex Android project, and every now and then just the Gradle part takes over 5 minutes for me. Just the Gradle syncing,

We are building a bit larger and more complex Android project, and every now and then just the Gradle part takes over 5 minutes for me. Just the Gradle syncing, before actually compiling anything. I think it's Gradle getting somehow into knots and taking a while to resolve everything -- I've got a very beefy computer so it's not about processing power. Gradle is just ridiculous.