Optimizing AndroidX Build with Gradle and Configuration Caching

The AndroidX build system uses Gradle and configuration caching to optimize its build process. With approximately 800 Gradle modules, the majority being Android, Kotlin, and Kotlin Multi-platform Java, AndroidX leverages AGP, Kotlin Gradle plugin, and other tools to streamline its workflow. By adopting configuration cache early on and enabling it in Gradle ADOT1, AndroidX significantly improved its configuration phase, allowing faster builds. Additionally, AndroidX utilizes local caching for faster rebuilds and remote caching for sharing build results across the team through cloud storage. The use of remote caching enhanced their pre-submit times and iteration speed, while the decision to mark certain packaging tasks, like zip and non-compressed jar tasks, as not cacheable improved their overall performance.