If I want to build an app ("to check if it builds"...

# gradle

[ursus]

If I want to build an app ("to check if it builds") but not create an apk binary, what do I want? assemble seems to create the apk

[octylFractal]

classes maybe?

[gildor]

But what exact reason to avoid actual packing? It usually pretty fast. You anyway have to do compilation + dexing, because class compilation is not enough to check that

[ursus]

well I have apk split builds and apks are quite large, but yes youre right I dont know how long the actual packaging is

[gildor]

dexing and packing is partially incremental

Also in case of CI it usually useful to save resulting apk

Anyway, I don’t see that it worth to optimize by avoiding packing, you would need to run a lot of tasks just to be sure that everyting is fine, because dex is not the only part, you at least need also resource processing

[ursus]

yea, thanks