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Does that just install the app on a device? If you're using the Android Gradle Plugin you can run

gradle install<variant>

It’s more than that. Here’s the official documentation about it: https://bazel.build/docs/mobile-install TL;DR it will make build iteration faster by sharding the dex files and loading it via its own dex loader. It might be the same like “Apply Changes” in Android Studio, but I haven’t read the implementation yet

It sounds like apply changes, and as far as I know there's nothing built in to gradle or agp for that. There could be third party plugins, etc... but nothing as far as I know

apply changes is the closest thing but can only be run from Android Studio and not command line

@no do you know why they make it exclusive to AS? Or maybe do you know a right place to ask such a thing 🙂 --- I tried digging into the source code and got the documentation of instant run, not sure is this refer to

Apply Changes

or not because instant run is already deprecated https://cs.android.com/android-studio/platform/tools/adt/idea/+/mirror-goog-studio-main:android/src/com/android/tools/idea/run/README.md;l=206

they make it exclusive because it relies on know information about the target device and they didn't want to add this functionality to the gradle build.

In that case, this

Gradle Build

on the flow chart, is a typical

assemble

task?

no, i believe that only represents builds executed from the IDE

In case of Apply Changes in AS, it should be

assemble<BuildType>

or other variations of assemble right? Or is there an exclusive Gradle task for this as well?

i believe it is

assemble<buildType>

you should be able to try this out in the IDE yourself

Will do. Thanks for all the info 👍👌