Case Study: LOGIBALL cuts Android build time from 15 to 2 minutes with Incredibuild

LOGIBALL uses Incredibuild to significantly reduce Android build time, cutting processing time from 15 to 2 minutes

LOGIBALL, a developer of high-quality navigation maps and geo-data applications, faced slow, repetitive cross-platform builds (Visual Studio C++, Eclipse and the Android NDK) for its many customized client solutions. Android builds took 15 minutes on developer machines and 7 minutes on servers, and Windows builds averaged 2:30, disrupting developer flow and hindering continuous delivery. LOGIBALL turned to Incredibuild to address these bottlenecks.

Incredibuild was integrated across developers’ machines, servers, Jenkins and Visual Studio (the Android NDK integration required a single line of code), yielding 50–90% faster builds: Android dropped from 15 to about 2 minutes on developer machines and from 7 minutes to 48 seconds on servers, while Windows builds fell from 2:30 to 1:15. With Incredibuild, LOGIBALL now runs Android builds up to 20 times per day, sustains continuous integration, reduces broken builds and speeds time-to-market.

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