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Reputation: 12915

Building workspace with android application takes too long

In the last few days I have noticed some very strange behavior in my android project:

And I have no idea what's going wrong.

I have already cleaned that project but it didn't help.

Is there any way to find out what is making the build process so slow?

P.s.

At about 89% i see the building message invoking 'Android Pre Compiler' on 'proj. name'

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4813

Answers (2)

Matjaz Kristl
Matjaz Kristl

Reputation: 756

Increase Xms and Xmx parameter in eclipse.ini file.

My default values was: -Xms40m -Xmx256m

My new values are: -Xms256m -Xmx1024m

Upvotes: 0

Ty Smith
Ty Smith

Reputation: 2594

I've dealt with various eclipse problems before that slowed it down. A couple things to recommend, enable advanced garbage collection and some of the other items recommended for a performance boost in this article How can you speed up Eclipse?.

Try enable verbose build output in your preferences for android>build to see if any of your specific resources are the bottleneck.

Although I was unable to find the article, I've read about using eclipse in debug mode and profiling the IDE as you work to see if any plugins are causing interruptions.

Last, I have used the community version of intellij idea 10 http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ which has strong android support. It's much faster than eclipse for most tasks, but doesn't have as much embedded android support (you must use ddms as a separate tool, no UI builder, etc...)

Upvotes: 2

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