Garrett McCullough
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

That removes the build artifacts leftover from the Android compilation process. Gradle is the compiler used for Android.

Both Gradle/Android Studio and Xcode are supposed to recognize when they do and don’t need to recompile the intermediary files but it seems like they occasionally don’t, which can lead to subtle bugs from things you thought you already fixed. Regularly running a clean command seems to help avoid this issue

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