Does Android Studio use Gradle Daemon?

Question

I used Gradle Daemon to build Android project from the command line and noticed it was quite fast. But Android Studio seems a bit slow compared to the command line, so that got me wondering: Is Android Studio using Gradle Daemon to speed up builds or is something else that's slowing them?

Answer 1

Create a file with the name "gradle.properties" in the following directory:

- /home/<username>/.gradle/ (Linux)
- /user/<username>/.gradle/ (Mac)
- %USERPROFILE%\.gradle (Windows)

And inside of it, you have to add this line:

org.gradle.daemon=true

Furthermore, you can add the following line to improve the speed a little:

org.gradle.parallel=true

You have more information on speed-up-gradle.