Alright thank you will give it a shot.

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Adrian
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are preparing a blog post to explain a few things, but the gist of it is
> that you can create a variant that's minSdkVersion 21+ and this variant
> will be be able to build faster because it doesn't have to compute the list
> of classes to put in the main dex file. It'll do pre-dexing and won't
> combine each dex file together so it's faster.
> Of course, this means you need to test on a 21+ device/emulator.
> Look at the multiDex sample, build the "ics" and "lollipop" variants and
> see how the tasks differ.
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Adrian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are there any plans in the future to somehow combine the two? I understand
>> why they are mutually exclusive but for dev time, my build time goes from
>> around 20-30 seconds to a minute plus now when using the multi-dex option.
>> I don't mind using the multi-dex options for a release build but for
>> developing it's quite an annoying wait each time.
>>
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