> There is hardly any Android conference without build related performance improvement talks. fwiw I think the Android toolchain being slow doesn't help. On th

> There is hardly any Android conference without build related performance improvement talks. fwiw I think the Android toolchain being slow doesn't help. On the same conferences someone will also speak about how the new Android Gradle Plugin is X% faster, so it's not all Gradle's fault :) That said there's plenty more Gradle can do (and is doing) to improve performance. The startup cost to configure all tasks is definitely high on my annoyances list