Boosting your Android CI through integrating Build Cache
summary
Claim: a Remote Build Cache plus modular Gradle work can cut build time 95% improvement in ideal cases and typically 30–60% for daily dev. Demonstrates a real repo drop from ~28 minutes to 3 minutes 48 seconds using Gradle task analysis and a critical path analyzer. Notes concrete pitfalls: versionCode/versionName placement, dynamic environment variables, noncacheable plugins like fabric crashlitics and jetti fire, and benefits of collocating cache and CI on bit rise for low-latency fetches.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Remote build cache basics
- 4:10Benefits and challenges
- 7:48Bitrise caching setup
- 9:58Build performance impact
- 10:41Android File Manager case
- 12:47Cacheability issues
- 16:18Setup time and conclusion
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