How to increase build speed of android app?

Question

Android

Today I wrote my hello world for android.
I'm using Android Studio 1.1
First, some dependencies on gradle were resolved.
Then the virtual device was launched. The first build happened in 8 minutes....
I changed the size, the position of the inscription "hello world" by a couple of pixels, I pressed RUN to check the result.
Voila... 4 minutes.

4 minutes to restart tiny changes in the program. During this time, I managed to drink coffee.
Question: Is this normal?
"it" will always work like this? Or is there something wrong with me?
Those who write for android, share your experience, please!

Answer 1

You can speed up the build if you enable offline mode for gradle: Preferences... -> Compiler -> Gradle -> Offline mode.

Answer 2

Android Studio already uses the Gradle Demon by default - it won't get any faster.
It is necessary to buy a bowl faster and put SSD'shny RAID.

Answer 3

Don't turn off the virtual machine and you won't have to wait five minutes. x86 image is much faster than ARM.

Answer 4

SSD + more memory + i7 fresher - everything compiles almost instantly

Answer 5

Set gradle parameter to parallel=true