I've updated Android Gradle Plugin to 3.3.2 and faced with the issue that build time is dramatically slower in comparison with 3.0.1.
DX takes 1min 40s - 2min 20s for clean build and around 1 min for rebuild when D8 takes 9min for clean build and around 7min for rebuild
After some investigation I found out that D8 compiler is turned on by default since 3.1.+ and it can be turned off, but from 3.3.+ it won't be possible.
This is gradle.properties
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4608m
org.gradle.caching=true
org.gradle.parallel=true
android.enableD8=true
android.enableD8.desugaring=true
Also
minifyEnabled false
shrinkResources false
--scan shows that transformClassesWithDexBuilder takes 5-7 minutes to finish, is there any way how to increase build speed without turning off D8?