This seems broken. I've tried it on the latest 1.2 beta and it's not the case. running ./gradlew testDebug only runs compileDebugJava from the tested project, not the full assemble.
Can you test with 1.2.0-beta2? On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Mike Grafton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Android Studio's unit test support is awesome, but it's extraordinarily > slow on my current project. This is because we are using multi-dex. From > what I can tell, multidex forces a full dexing of all your code - which > means incremental dexing is useless. > > For us this amounts to about a 50 second wait every time we want to run a > unit test. This is pretty much unworkable for TDD workflows :( > > We noticed that Studio invokes both assembleDebug and > assembleDebugUnitTest when running unit tests. The latter of these is quite > fast because it does not dex. The task I run from the command line - > testDebug - also does not dex. > > So, it seems to me that it's unnecessary for Studio to be calling the > heavyweight assembleDebug target, and that assembleDebugUnitTest should be > enough. For unit tests anyway. Is that correct? Can this be changed in > Studio (or the Android or Gradle plugins). > > Or (most likely) do I have no idea what I'm talking about? > > FWIW, we worked around this on our project by hacking our build.gradle to > replace 'assembleDebug' with an empty task - but only when a certain system > property is passed in as true. We set this system property to false in our > gradle properties (and use an extra gradle task in our Application run > config to turn it to false in that case). > > Thanks for any input, > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
