Android lint tool is a static code analysis tool that checks your Android project source files for potential bugs and optimization improvements for correctness, security, performance, usability, accessibility, and internationalization. I'll show few examples and suggestions how we can use it to make application development more enjoyable.

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

3. lint
• introduced in ADT 16 (and Tools 16)!
• scans Android project sources for potential bugs!
• available as!
• command line tool!
• integrated with Android Studio

4. Code scanning workflow

5. $ gradle lint

6. errors

7. no errors

8. android studio doesn’t use lint.xml

9. command line demo

10. Android Studio

11. Android Studio integration

12. configuring checks

13. Suppress problems

14. available checks
• $ lint —show!
• lists all available checks!
• http://tools.android.com/tips/lint-checks

15. 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

16. links
• http://tools.android.com/tips/lint!
• http://developer.android.com/tools/help/lint.html

17. Thank you.