infinum android talks #04 - android lint

Android lintNikola Kapraljević nixa

Static code analysis tool that checks your Android project source files.

lint• introduced in ADT 16 (and Tools 16)!

• scans Android project sources for potential bugs!

• available as!

• command line tool!

• integrated with Android Studio

Code scanning workflow

$ gradle lint

errors

no errors

android studio doesn’t use lint.xml

command line demo

Android Studio

Android Studio integration

configuring checks

Suppress problems

available checks• $ lint —show!

• lists all available checks!

• http://tools.android.com/tips/lint-checks

my favorites• StringFormatMatches - Ensures that the format used in <string>

definitions is compatible with the String.format call!

• MissingTranslation - Checks for incomplete translations where not all strings are translated!

• ExtraTranslation - Checks for translations that appear to be unused!

• SpUsage - Looks for uses of dp instead of sp dimensions for text sizes!

• UnusedResources - Looks for unused resources!

• HardcodedText - Looks for hardcoded text attributes which should be converted to resource lookup

links• http://tools.android.com/tips/lint!

• http://developer.android.com/tools/help/lint.html

Thank you.