Since Dagger 2 supports incremental kapt, is there...
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Colton Idle
03/29/2020, 5:17 PMSince Dagger 2 supports incremental kapt, is there any benefit to using dagger-reflect?
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Nicholas Doglio
03/29/2020, 7:43 PMAnecdotally speaking dagger-reflect is still significantly faster for me than just incremental kapt. This however is just from my experience on using it on a few side projects I don't have any benchmarks to confirm this.
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Colton Idle
03/30/2020, 3:16 PMGood enough for me. May still give that a try then. Thanks for the anecdote.
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Nicholas Doglio
03/30/2020, 4:18 PMI also use this plugin: https://github.com/soundcloud/delect
It automatically swaps dagger with dagger-reflect for local builds so you don't need to have a big if-else block in your
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gildor
03/30/2020, 5:12 PMEven incrementally, there is a big overhead of annotation processing stepml
Also incremental kapt compilation is quite brittle (many things may break it up)
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Colton Idle
03/30/2020, 11:02 PMInteresting. I wonder if I should ask most of my annotation processor authors on github to see if they can build a reflect based artifact as well.