ci(repo): use the gradle cache for the per-PR android build

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🎯 Goal

build (android) runs on every pull request without a Gradle cache, while the e2e_test android jobs on the same event already use one. Two added lines, ~2m37s saved per PR, and no extra cache storage.

🛠 Implementation details

• Adds ./.github/actions/cache-gradle to the build job, gated on matrix.platform == 'android'.
• Costs nothing in cache budget. The key hashes only sample_app/android/** build files plus pubspec.lock, so a PR that leaves those alone computes the same key as master and gets a primary-key hit — actions/cache then skips the save. No new entry.

☑️ Verification

Measured on this branch, all on identical master content:

gradle cache	Build android App	whole job
none (miss)	9m10s	10m50s
full entry (hit)	5m14s / 5m38s	7m08s / 7m14s

~3m44s off the build step, ~28-32s of it given back to restoring the 3 GB entry — net ~2m37s per PR.

📋 Also measured, and rejected

Narrowing cache-gradle to ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2 + ~/.gradle/wrapper was tested and is not worth it. On the runner ~/.gradle/caches is 7.1GB: caches/8.14.3 4.6GB, modules-2 1.7GB, build-cache-1 792MB, wrapper 277MB.

variant	entry size	Build android App
full	2.93 GiB	~5m26s
narrow	1.51 GiB	8m33s
no cache	—	9m10s

It halves the size but keeps only ~17% of the benefit — the AAR transforms in caches/8.14.3 and the task outputs in build-cache-1 are where the time is, not the dependency downloads. Left as-is.

The repository's Actions cache is currently ~11.2 GiB against a 10 GB allowance, so eviction is continuous. The bulk of the waste is not Gradle: each open PR stores its own 1640 MiB copy of flutter-linux-stable-3.47.3-x64-<hash>, because legacy_version_analyze uses a key master never populates. #2952 fixes that, and is the change that actually reclaims space.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Android build now uses a narrowed Gradle cache with a new cache key prefix. The workflow also reports Gradle-related directory sizes after the build without failing when paths or probe commands are unavailable.

Changes

Android build cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gradle cache configuration and diagnostics .github/actions/cache-gradle/action.yml, .github/workflows/stream_flutter_workflow.yml	The cache action stores modules-2, the Gradle wrapper, and the project .gradle directory. It uses the gradle-v2- key prefix. The Android workflow runs the action and performs non-blocking post-build size checks.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 87993

The Android workflow narrows Gradle caching and adds size diagnostics; an unquoted workspace path may make those measurements inaccurate. This is a bounded CI-reporting issue, so the change is low risk but should be corrected before relying on the results.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main change: tuning the Gradle cache configuration and usage in CI.
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In @.github/workflows/stream_flutter_workflow.yml:
- Line 202: Quote the complete workspace path in the du command for the
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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 75.85%. Comparing base (0e3b364) to head (8799332).

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