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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 548

Eclipse slow at building Android resources

I'm using Eclipse to develop Android apps. I'm using the latest SDK and Eclipse 3.6, my computer is macbook air with 4GB of ram.

Everytime I change a resource file ( an XML layout for example ), it takes eclipse between 1mn and 2mn to actually rebuild the binary and deploy it. My binary is about 10M ( it's a game with lots of bitmaps ).

It's very hard to program with such high response times, any way to make it shorter ?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3804

Answers (5)

Pointer Null
Pointer Null

Reputation: 40380

ADT 14 will solve this.

http://tools.android.com/download/adt-14-preview

Upvotes: 0

Arron La
Arron La

Reputation: 96

They are fixing this problem and it's available in ADT 12.

http://tools.android.com/download

http://tools.android.com/recent/finercontroloveradtbuildprocess

Upvotes: 3

Pedantic
Pedantic

Reputation: 5022

If you have a lot of graphics you might want to read this android-dev post. aapt optimizes pngs during a build (perhaps unnecessarily so) but only if the extension is .png (case sensitive). Renaming them to .PNG skips the optimization step but the images are still useful when referenced.

Upvotes: 10

Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi

Reputation: 1202

Remove the check Build Automatically in Project menu, in this way you are not continously compiling. In Android resources are highly optimized so compilation in an application like your can take time.

You can manually compile when you have done significant changes.

Upvotes: 1

bwawok
bwawok

Reputation: 15357

Are you using maven or such? Eclipse + Maven both have a builder, and they tend to fight a lot if both are enabled.

(honestly the best answer is use Intelli-J, and everything will magically work, but I doubt you want this answer).

Upvotes: 1

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