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gradle will stop reporting any tasks on the right in ~3 mins, but sync in AS still shows “gradle build running” but no tasks are displayed, so have no idea what its actually doing. is this a gradle, or IDE problem?

It's probably building Android and Gradle models, that can take some time. There are two parts of sync: 1. Gradle part: project configuration 2. IDE part: building "Gradle models" and "Android models": basically collecting all the data that IDE requires as far as I understand There were some improvements to do 2. in parallel in the Android Studio for Android models if I remember correctly https://developer.android.com/build/releases/past-releases/agp-7-4-0-release-notes. Not sure which version of AS supports that, but the latest the better. There is also a flag in IntelliJ 2023.3 I think to also build some Gradle models in parallel, see Enable-Parallel-model-fetch-by-default (it also requires

org.gradle.parallel=true

I believe). There will be also improvements for 1. with isolated project, which will basically allow parallel configuration, first for syncs and later also for task execution.

weird, i am using gradle 8, AGP 8.1 and I enabled parallel gradle sync mode in IDE settings. but yeah in the link for parallel model fetch is not in my AS Iguana yet. I havent checked Jellyfish for that