Add workflow that runs jacocoTestReport on AnkiDroid PR against Anki-Android-Backend PR

[mikehardy]

There was an issue that only turned up in Anki-Android (this repo) CI after merging + releasing an Anki-Android-Backend PR and it would be nice to have a workflow that allowed a PR here that was dependent on a PR there to run our CI targets on the PR here against the result of the backend build there

Just some brainstorming:

• I believe it is possible to have some workflows be callable and provide them arguments, perhaps we could keep the CI workflows fully separate in their repos and just call them - that is have a backend workflow we can call on a specific git commit hash and it will provide a local library we can test?
• maybe in the test workflows here, if there is a local.properties parse it and see if it is local_backend=true, if it is pull a new property that is a git reference (so you can use a branch name) and if it is, then call out to a backend workflow on that hash to build a local rsdroid ?

That would require a final commit in a PR here after launch+release to remove the local.properties but it would still be incremental improvement

...or something

[david-allison]

Iw we use workflow_dispatch + input: string, we can avoid having the commit ref in the local.properties.

Upsides:

• No need to add in 'test' commits

Downsides:

• Reapplying workflows may take a little longer

[mikehardy]

I think a requirement is that it has to be fully automated at least within context of a PR, we can't be fishing out the right string to input, and a test commit while waiting until the real version comes out isn't the worst thing - better than manual workflow runs IMHO

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[mikehardy]

I think this has to be in Anki-Android-Backend now that I think about it. Building the backend is a really non-trivial endeavour and it's all set up there. The workflow should pull Anki-Android after the jars are built and run AnkiDroid test / androidTest against the freshly-built artifacts

[dae]

I feel like this would challenging to implement, as long as the two repos are separate. We get 90% there already by using ./build.sh and testing locally, so perhaps that's enough?