Best practices for reducing local/remote gradle cache misses during local development

[kyhule]

By now, most are probably aware they should use static build config values with your debug build, but if your project takes advantage of remote gradle cache, you also do not want to make things so static (i.e. hardcode versionCode to 1) that you have unnecessary cache misses even when building an up to date checkout of the default branch with a clean working tree.

I'm curious to hear what best practices and patterns people use to optimize build cache when using this plugin.

[ychescale9]

Are you getting any unexpected cache misses with this plugin?

The versionCode and versionName generation are done in the generatedAppVersionInfoFor<BuildVarient task which is both incremental and cacheable as the task uses the project's .git/refs for tracking whether version info need to be recomputed due to changes to git tags.

Can you please explain what issues you're running into and what's your expectation?