Did you ever figured out how to speed up Ionic Cloud Package?
I might try foregoing ionic package build --prod --release and do the pure ionic build --prod --release and sign the .apk manually. Have you made progress in this regard?
Edit: Somehow it all works now. The exact command I use is: ionic package build android --prod --profile my_profile --release.
I could not get --prod to work on local build, however. But since you get 100 free builds per month with Ionic Package, I’m gonna stick with it.
Edit 2: I literally tried the same exact command 2 days after and it, once again, is not compressed. What the heck? I can tell the bootup time will be terrible based on the file size.