Hello,
We updated to Android Studo 3.3 and Gradle:

• com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0
• distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip

We have noticed that build is taking a lot longer now ~8min vs seconds

Upon inspection there is a new task jacocoDevelopDebug that is taking up to 8 min.
com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.JacocoTaskDelegate$JacocoWorkerAction - Is being executed forever and multiple times

We tried to skip this task using gradle.startParameter.excludedTaskNames += "jacocoDevelopDebug"
However after doing that, generated apk is missing something and app crashes with:

 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application com.collectivehealth.member.CollectiveHealthDebugApplication: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.collectivehealth.member.CollectiveHealthDebugApplication" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/system/framework/org.apache.http.legacy.boot.jar", zip file "/data/app/com.collectivehealth.member.develop-XgfxJLLuiVl694XMPS_tHQ==/base.apk"],
nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.collectivehealth.member.develop-XgfxJLLuiVl694XMPS_tHQ==/lib/x86_64, /data/app/com.collectivehealth.member.develop-XgfxJLLuiVl694XMPS_tHQ==/base.apk!/lib/x86_64, /system/lib64]]

Questions:

1. What is this task and why is it executed during debug builds?
2. How can we speed up the build?

• Build scan URL: https://gradle.com/s/yhggbke73ciha