Question

I have a relatively small project (50 classes) that has included 13 JAR libraries (android-support, gson, guava etc) and uses one Android library (Sherlock).

The problem is that whenever I press “Build Project” it takes around two minutes to build/deploy to a device. (However newly created android project takes no more than 5 seconds to build).

Is there something I can do with it (limit number of libs, switch to another IDE)? Or it is just usual behavior.

Answer 1

I do not have direct answer to your question but I can recommend you the following steps.

1. You compare build+deploy of “Big” project with build of “Small” project. Did you try to compare exactly same operation for both? What the result is?
2. Try to create new workspace. Sometimes it helps to Eclipse.
3. Try to take “Small” project and move from it to “Big” one step-by step. For example add dependencies first. Try to build the project. The time did not significantly changed? Go forward and add 20 custom classes etc. The time changed? Try to find which library causes this. You can also choose other strategy: try to add classes without adding dependent jars, just comment out code that uses dependencies. This way may be more complicated but I believe still possible since your project is indeed to too big.

Good luck.