Anybody experiencing long build times on android for its first run?

[marqroldan]

I am wondering if this is expected (gradle seems to build some stuff) and if there's any way to speed it up..

Computer Details:

• M4 Pro, 24GB
• Sequoia 15.7.3
• Free Storage: 100GB

Emulator Details:

• Android 16.0 ("Baklava") | arm64 | API 36
• Screen: Rsizeable (Experimental)
• arm64-v8a
• Free Storage: 10gb

    "@shopify/react-native-skia": "^2.4.14",

It takes me 18-25 minutes for the first build, and pretty fast afterwards

Maybe relevant:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79876017/react-native-skia-on-rn-0-81-with-new-architecture-causes-massive-build-time-h