Alloy intensive compilation

An Alloy Titanium application that takes a lot of time to compile ( 1000 widgets ).

The problem

When the mobile application grows the Alloy compilation process starts to take a lot of time. This tries to compile only the files we need to get some better compilation times.

Using custom build of [email protected]

The changes applied to Alloy:

• https://github.com/aetheon/alloy/commit/9e47402ddf14e55d4087cb65cf2a166fec9e0538.

This version tracks the modified date of each alloy file. If a change is made to a widget file (.js, .xml, .tss) then the widget file compilation is done, otherwise that is ignored.

# install custom alloy 1.3.1
> sudo npm i "https://github.com/aetheon/alloy/blob/1_3_X/alloy-1.3.1.tgz?raw=true" -g

# cleanup ti app compiled files
> rm -rf Resources
> rm -rf build

# first build
> time ti build -p ios -b
real 1m53.242s

# next build (no file changes)
> time ti build -p ios -b
real 0m34.862s

TODO

Apply the similar method on optimizeCompiledCode() on Alloy code.

Authors

Oscar Brito - @aetheon