Keeping your team’s Gradle builds in top shape

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Automated build validation scripts run five reproducible experiments (up-to-date, local cache, relocatability, CI→CI, CI→local), produce paired build scans and copied artifacts, and identify which tasks actually cause cache misses. A GitHub Action runs them weekly. The new Gradle Enterprise API lets code fetch ~200 public builds (filtered to ~85), compute per-task negative avoidance savings, and pinpoint that dex merging is usually worth caching but shows cache misses and slowdowns for Android test variants, guiding targeted fixes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speakers
2. 2:18Why developer productivity matters
3. 4:25Build scans and Gradle Enterprise
4. 6:17What is build caching
5. 7:42Build validation scripts
6. 18:43Automating build validation
7. 19:25Gradle Enterprise API overview
8. 21:52Is my task worth caching
9. 29:16Using Gradle Enterprise API
10. 33:50Room annotation processor issues
11. 34:55Call to action and resources

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