On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:20 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > From my little experience with Gradle as part of Android Studio, > be prepared for increased build times and CPU load vs Ant.
I am just about to start doing things with Android now I can use Kotlin and Groovy to program the applications (*). I had assumed, because Android Studio is really IntelliJ IDEA, that people would use the build in project creation to make an IDEA project form the Gradle file. Any lengthy compilation of Android Studio over the old Eclipse thing should be an Eclipse vs IntelliJ IDEA thing, not a Groovy/Gradle thing. On the other hand if you use the Gradle build always then I can imagine slow start up the first time since it has to start the Gradle server. (*) I find Java 6 an appalling language. Android is getting some Java 7, but I want Java 8 and beyind, now. Kotlin and (static) Groovy provide this. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
