hey guys, is it normal for kmm project? each time ...

# multiplatform

[deviant]

hey guys, is it normal for kmm project? each time i change 1 line of code and try to rebuild - it's starting the cold build process with redownloading all dependencies etc. sometimes it takes like 40 mins. is it kmm plugin bug or android studio? can't find matching issue in the bug tracker

[Landry Norris]

One of my co-workers had a similar issue. He set up the build folder on a RAM drive, and said the time went down from 1 hour to 20 minutes.

[deviant]

sounds promising 😄

[louiscad]

Kotlin 1.5.21?

[CLOVIS]

I'm using multiplatform with JVM, JS and Android and never had anything like that. Do you have any more details on what exactly happens?

[Landry Norris]

It's compiling it as several "separate" projects, so that may have an effect on speed. It seems very storage speed bound.

[Matthias Geisler]

Sounds like you are doing something with Native...Actually the linker takes freaky long time to do his job...however somebody noticed that BuildCaches helps...but I did not had the time to try it myself...

[Mayank]

Try Gradle offline mode. It should reduce the time.

[deviant]

yeah, offline mode helps. but why? looks like a bug for me.
tried 1.5.10, 1.5.21. no defference.
my project for now is just almost hello world kmm (android+ios) and jetpack compose

[CLOVIS]

We can't know why it does that without more info. What exactly is your config?

[deviant]

sure. we started our project following the oficial guide. created new kmm project in latest AS canary. added few libs like coroutines, moko, jetpack compose. we use gradle kotlin dsl for all scripts (may it be the root of all problems?).
for now we are playing with android app only.

[CLOVIS]

Do you have the same problem with the hello world/template project?

[deviant]

i don't think so. but i already guess it should be fine since i'm the only person here who get this issue 🙂
let me check

[Mayank]

My team was facing this exact issue. Gradle sync was fast in offline mode but too slow otherwise. We couldn’t find a solution until one day CI started failing. We found that dependency was getting resolved from wrong repository. And then it clicked that this could also be the reason for slow sync. We removed some unused repositories and rearranged them. It resolved the issue. I don’t know why gradle was downloading dependencies on every sync and couldn’t find anything on the net. But am content that its atleast fast now

[deviant]

@Mayank could you elaborate what exactly was the dependency/repo?

[Mayank]

The root gradle buildscript repositories. We reordered them to

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        gradlePluginPortal()
        google()
        mavenCentral()
         maven { url = uri("<https://dl.bintray.com/some_other_repo>") }
    }
}

[Mayank]

Moving bintray repo to the bottom made a huge impact

[louiscad]

You can just remove it, bintray repos are all offline now, killed by the sunset. Only jcenter is still around, read-only.

[deviant]

i have a progress on this 🙂
shuffled the repositories section a bit, and now crazy infinite dependencies donwloading gone. but now i stuck on the Build model... and Download maven-metadata.xml. 21 min so far...

[louiscad]

Downloading such a file should take about 2 seconds on a 2G connection (Edge), and less than a second over other connections.

[deviant]

i know man 🙂 but my colleague has same issue in a totally different environment (same project). i'll try to investigate verbosed logs. unfortunately can't spend much time on this (not our main project, rather an early stage investigations)

[deviant]

eventually figured out. you guys were right, it was a nasty bintray repo 🤦
now builds like a hurricane! case closed