Android Build System

Build Cache. Build Cache speeds up local and CI builds by allowing you to share and reuse unchanged build and test outputs across the team. The task input comparison tool helps you understand why local devs and CI builds are not benefitting from the remote Build Cache to maximize Build Cache performance and reuse.

Performance Continuity. Performance Continuity refers to a rich set of analytic, profiling, and diagnostic tools to proactively sustain the feedback cycle time optimizations achieved with build caching. It includes critical path analysis to help focus performance improvements on the parts of the build that matter most.

Build Scan^®. Build Scan gives Android developers detailed data for every command line, Android Studio or CI build, so they can quickly find the root cause of build and test failures and fix them on their own without re-running broken builds to reproduce problems.

To facilitate debugging, Android build data can be filtered by timeframe (e.g., show me only builds run in the last seven days); username (i.e., the operating system user that executed the build); the name of Gradle root project; build tool and version; custom values and tags; and the outcome of the running build.

Build Scan links can also be shared to allow remote debugging with teammates in remote working environments. With Develocity and Build Scan you can also easily compare builds and understand the differences that lead to the same build succeeding and then failing.

Failure Analytics. Failure Analytics complements Build Scan by improving build, test, and toolchain reliability with rich failure metrics and trend data for Android unit and instrumentation tests. You can use Failure analytics in combination with Build Scan to make problems like flaky tests and other avoidable failures easier to detect, reproduce for root cause analysis, and prioritize for fixing based on an impact assessment and frequency of occurrence.

Trends & Insights. While Develocity helps you react to tactical performance bottlenecks and daily failures, it also enables you to respond proactively to systemic problems and longer-term performance regressions using dashboards that make key metrics and KPIs more observable and actionable.