There’s a major enhancement for Android developers on Bitrise: our Gradle Config Cache integration is now available to dramatically reduce your build times and make your CI/CD workflows faster and more efficient.
This feature is exclusively available as part of Bitrise Build Cache and brings together the best of Gradle and Bitrise to cut down those frustrating waits.
What does configuration caching mean for you?
If you're an Android developer, you know the pain of long build times. Every time you run a build, Gradle needs to perform a configuration phase to figure out what tasks need to be executed. For large projects, this phase can be a significant bottleneck, leading to wasted time and slower feedback loops.
Gradle Config Cache helps by caching the results of this configuration phase, so you can skip it in subsequent builds if the project configuration hasn't changed. Gradle Config Cache is available now alongside the existing build and test caching in Bitrise, enhancing your ability to optimize both build and configuration phases.
In internal benchmarking, this feature delivered even further time savings on top of Bitrise Build Cache’s existing caching solution. Builds that would take over 14 minutes were completed in less than 6 minutes.
Why Bitrise Build Cache is the best choice for Android builds
By integrating Gradle Config Cache into Bitrise Build Cache, you can now see even faster builds and fewer headaches as your CI workflows become more efficient.
Key benefits of Gradle Config Cache with Bitrise Build Cache:
- Save time: Reduce the time spent in the configuration phase of your builds. Less waiting means more coding.
- Boost productivity: Focus more on innovating and developing high-quality features rather than watching build progress bars.
- Optimize costs: Shorter build times mean less compute time and lower CI costs.
How to get started
If you're interested in cutting down your build times and improving your Android development workflow, enabling Gradle Config Cache with Bitrise Build Cache can be done by following these instructions in the Bitrise dev center.
If you're not already benefitting from the time savings created by Build Cache, you can learn more about Bitrise Build Cache here, or sign up to a free 30-day trial here.
