Any way to speed up install of licenses?

[Marty]

My gitlab runner takes quite a few moments for these things:

Running Gradle task 'bundleDebug'...    
Checking the license for package Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/licenses
License for package Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 accepted.
Preparing "Install Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 (revision: 28.0.3)".
"Install Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 (revision: 28.0.3)" ready.
Installing Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/28.0.3
"Install Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 (revision: 28.0.3)" complete.
"Install Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3 (revision: 28.0.3)" finished.
Checking the license for package Android SDK Platform 28 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/licenses
License for package Android SDK Platform 28 accepted.
Preparing "Install Android SDK Platform 28 (revision: 6)".
"Install Android SDK Platform 28 (revision: 6)" ready.
Installing Android SDK Platform 28 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/platforms/android-28
"Install Android SDK Platform 28 (revision: 6)" complete.
"Install Android SDK Platform 28 (revision: 6)" finished.
Checking the license for package Android SDK Platform 29 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/licenses
License for package Android SDK Platform 29 accepted.
Preparing "Install Android SDK Platform 29 (revision: 5)".
"Install Android SDK Platform 29 (revision: 5)" ready.
Installing Android SDK Platform 29 in /opt/android-sdk-linux/platforms/android-29
"Install Android SDK Platform 29 (revision: 5)" complete.
"Install Android SDK Platform 29 (revision: 5)" finished.

Is there any way to speed this up, either via caching a certain directory or by doing this when the image is built?

[Leystryku]

Can confirm, I am having the same issue.
I believe the Dockerfile needs to

1. Excute flutter precache
2. Somehow Pre-install the Android SDK stuff

[fkorotkov]

Could you please provide your YAML configuration?

[Leystryku]

Sure, here's mine which causes the same issue within the build stage.

image: cirrusci/flutter:stable

stages:
    - build
    - analyze
    - test

before_script:
    - flutter clean
    - flutter pub get


build:
    tags:
        - build
    stage: build
    script:
        - flutter build apk --target-platform android-arm --split-per-abi --release

unit_test:
    tags:
        - test
    stage: test
    script:
        - flutter pub global activate junitreport
        - export PATH=~/.pub-cache/bin:${PATH}
        - flutter test --machine | tojunit > test_report.xml
    artifacts:
        when: always
        reports:
            junit: test_report.xml
analyze:
    tags:
        - analyze
    stage: analyze
    script:
        - flutter analyze

[Leystryku]

I believe you have to run these commands, the SDK this depends on uses version 30, flutter however uses 28. Plus the SDK does not have the platform-tools preinstalled.

How to fix it in commandline:

  flutter precache
  sdkmanager "--update" "--verbose" 
  sdkmanager "build-tools;28.0.3" "platform-tools" "platforms;android-28" "platforms;android-29" "extras;android;m2repository" "extras;google;google_play_services" "extras;google;m2repository"

[Leystryku]

@fkorotkov
I have created a PR which fixes the issue
#120

[fkorotkov]

Looks like this is a related issue flutter/flutter#63533

[kjeremy]

I'm hitting this too along with the installation of the ndk and cmake for the bitmap package. Is there a way maybe to move the sdk components somewhere where gitlab can cache them and then move them back at the start of the build?

[fkorotkov]

Until flutter/flutter#63533 is fixed I think the best workaround is to build your own Docker image based of cirrusci/flutter.

For folks using using Cirrus CI, Dockerfile as CI environment feature might be very handy.

[bartekpacia]

Dear future readers: I made a small investigation of this issue, I hope it helps