AndroidStudioBenchmark (Firefox Focus for Android)

AndroidStudioBenchmark contains a large codebase to measure the compilation time in Android Studio.

You are probably familiar with the following question:

"Should I buy an i5, i7, or even i9 processor for Android development? How much RAM would be enough? How SSD/M.2/NVMe influence build time?".

AndroidStudioBenchmark is initially created for my personal youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/serhiyradkivskyi/about to compare the performance of top laptops to choose the best system for Android development, because I hate to wait lot of time waiting project to be built. And if we are buying laptop for 1000+ USD we want to be sure that it will perform 100% faster than our current machine. But online shops in there most - don't give ability to make real world testing on your project to compare results. And most of tech reviewers describe laptops from designers/youtubers point of view, not that much information from real software developers.

I believe the results will help developers to make the right cost/performance trade-off decision when choosing their next Mac/PC. If you are interested - just continue reading and if you'll find this test useful - it would be very cool if you can share your result and subscribe for my channel - it would be cool to have like minded audiance to share some more test on and get feedback on any professional stuff.

Results of Android Studio Performance testing:

https://buildtime.reznicsoftware.com

Source Code of the plugin: https://github.com/a-reznic/buildtime-plugin

Testing steps:

please modify(end of app/build.gradle file) the block - change deviceName and androidStudioVersion to your real values: EXAMPLE: androidStudioVersion = Just copy and paste from Android Studio Help -> About dialog:

buildTimeOptions {
    info {
        deviceName = "Custom PC"
        androidStudioVersion = "Android Studio Koala | 2024.1.1 Patch 1\n" +
                "Build #AI-241.18034.62.2411.12071903, built on July 11, 2024\n" +
                "Runtime version: 17.0.11+0--11852314 amd64\n" +
                "VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.\n" +
                "Windows 11.0\n" +
                "GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation\n" +
                "Memory: 4096M\n" +
                "Cores: 32"
    }
}

1. Install Android Studio:

https://developer.android.com/studio

I was running test on Android Studio Koala, but you can run tests on the latest version (just write the version you have).

I have set 4Gb RAM for my android virtual machine.

And please remember your Android SDK location.

2. Download API Level 28 SDK for this do next:

Go to: Tools -> SDK Manager

Choose Tab: SDK Platforms

Select: Android 9.0 (Pie) API Level 28 and download it.

Close Android Studio after this.

3. Install JDK 17:

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/?er=221886#java17

I have installed: Java SE Development Kit (You can also use JDK 11 or 17),

JDK 17 has support for Macbook with M1/MPro chips. It'w better use this if you have such machine, it will give faster results: (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk17-archive-downloads.html)

4. Set "JAVA_HOME" path in your Environment variables (System variables):

Doc https://www.baeldung.com/java-home-on-windows-mac-os-x-linux

5. Download android-buildtime repository:

https://github.com/a-reznic/android-buildtime

This is a fork of opensource Firefox browser for Android (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android).

This is quite a big project (after all gradle modules downloaded it weights 6+Gb).

You can download it as zip file to you fast SSD location.

Unzip it.

6. Restart you system.

Then make sure that no other programs/antivirus/browsers/big massive custom processes running.

Make sure that system is quite idle.

7. Open Android Studio.

Go to File -> Open: select Firefox Focus for Android project from your location and open it.

Wait while all gradle files will be synced, it can take up to 5-10 minutes.

8. Run next command to test speed of your machine doing next work:

Go to: View -> Tools Windows -> Terminal

please modify(end of app/build.gradle file) the block - change deviceName and androidStudioVersion to your real values: EXAMPLE: androidStudioVersion = Just copy and paste from Android Studio Help -> About dialog:

buildTimeOptions {
    email = ""
    info {
        deviceName = "Custom PC"
        androidStudioVersion = "Android Studio Koala | 2024.1.1 Patch 1\n" +
                "Build #AI-241.18034.62.2411.12071903, built on July 11, 2024\n" +
                "Runtime version: 17.0.11+0--11852314 amd64\n" +
                "VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.\n" +
                "Windows 11.0\n" +
                "GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation\n" +
                "Memory: 4096M\n" +
                "Cores: 32"
    }
}

Type command and press enter:

Windows:

gradlew clean assemble

MacOS/Linux:

./gradlew clean assemble

Wait for assembling to complete. Run it 4 times in a row.

First time it will be your fresh build and it will take a little longer. Two next builds will be normal one.

After each build completes make a screenshot and save time result.

While system assembling watch for you Task Manager how CPU is processing, how much RAM is used, it would be cool if you can watch CPU temperature with some tool like AIDA: https://www.aida64.com/downloads

All results will be sent to the server

You can see results of all tests here: https://buildtime.reznicsoftware.com

You Device result: https://buildtime.reznicsoftware.com/device/{device_id} - response from server