Build Cache & Daemon
Leverage the Gradle Build Cache and Daemon to significantly speed up incremental builds.
Boost Your Gradle Builds
Ever waited too long for a Gradle build to finish? In this lesson, we'll unlock two powerful features to speed up your development:
- Gradle Daemon: Keeps a JVM running in the background.
- Build Cache: Reuses outputs from previous builds.
These tools are essential for making your incremental builds much faster!
Meet the Gradle Daemon
The Gradle Daemon is a long-lived background process that hosts your Gradle builds. Think of it like a dedicated server for your builds!
- It eliminates the JVM startup overhead for each build.
- It keeps project information and caches in memory.
- This means subsequent builds are significantly faster!