Hi, I‘m having an android project. and I notice it try to find some directory that I had never crea...

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[Jast Lai]

Hi, I‘m having an android  project. and I notice it try to find some directory that I had never create when I try to assemble it , and if I got lot of flavors. It looks like spent lot of time to find those directories that never exist.

Can I skip those step ? If I skip those step, would it help me to optimize build time ?

[El Zhang]

I think it does not impact the performance, the source set is pre-set and passed to KotlinCompiler, all it needs to check is like

fileTree.forEach { File("...").exists() }

which is not a time consuming job.

I also tried passing an empty set to “debug” source set, logs were printed still (looks like there is a fallback-value mechanism). So take it easy and just ignore them.

sourceSets["debug"].java.setSrcDirs(setOf<String>())
sourceSets["debug"].kotlin.setSrcDirs(setOf<String>())