Creation of release apk / bundle using circleCI fails due to Memory limit being exceeded

[himeshr]

Motivation

Circle CI allows free tier usage of resource_class "large" for all the builds.
Since yesterday, we seemed to start hitting the memory limit of 8gb during our automated staging apk builds.
This prevented us from starting testing for 10.0.1 release.

Possible solution paths

This leaves us with 2 options:

• Buy circle CI paid subscription
• reduce memory usage during apk/bundle build

Acceptance Criteria

Ensure that CircleCI automated build of release apk/bundle succeeds always without facing memory limit issues.

[himeshr]

As a fix to quickly generate APKs for testing and release purposes, did the following changes:

• Disabled 'org.gradle.daemon'
• configured circle ci gradleOpts to have "-Dkotlin.compiler.execution.strategy=in-process" set, to avoid separate daemon being spawned

[himeshr]

Commits related to this card

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[himeshr]

Circle CI Staging APK generation time Memory usage graphs

1. Failure
2. With kotlin compiler config
3. With kotlin compiler config + Disabling gradle daemon in ci env

With only Disable of gradle daemon in ci env