How to ignore complete folders for lint checking with gradle?

Question

I have an Android project that includes generated code. This code has some lint violations in it that I don't want to show up in the lint reports because we won't fix this code problems manually.

Is it somehow possible to exclude folders in the lint check?

See the [Lint docs](http://tools.android.com/tips/lint/suppressing-lint-warnings) for suppressing warnings. — corsair992, Jan 14 '14 at 17:00

Volo · Answer 1 · 2016-08-24T15:14:45.867

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The correct way to do this is to add the following block to your app's lint.xml (this file is by default placed at the root of your app module):

<issue id="all">
    <ignore path="build" />
</issue>

This will instruct Lint to ignore all issues for the specified folder. If there is no lint.xml in your app module folder, create one with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lint>
    <issue id="all">
        <ignore path="build" />
    </issue>
</lint>

edited Aug 24 '16 at 15:14

answered Aug 24 '16 at 15:09

Volo

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It worked well for lint <= 3.1, but for 3.2 it doesn't work. `lint` complains with `Error: Unknown issue id "all", found in ..../app/lint.xml [LintError]` – Alexander Skvortsov Sep 26 '18 at 21:08
Exactly what @AlexanderSkvortsov said, anyone knows how to make it work with `all`? – Julio_oa Oct 04 '18 at 15:49
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@AlexanderSkvortsov this is a bug introduced in 3.2.0 by this [commit](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/32969ce85a9115c66101e0e382431becc78c6e52%5E%21/lint/cli/src/main/java/com/android/tools/lint/LintCliClient.java). Please star the related Android issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/116677290 – Volo Oct 05 '18 at 20:46
This should work again in AS 3.3 and 3.4: `Fixed by Change-Id: Ibe1154541bf4e1fce821030e10753bef28046790 for 3.4 and cherrypick to 3.3 in progress.` https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/116677290#comment4 – Volo Dec 12 '18 at 19:35

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 18 '15 at 12:38

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Add to your project 'lint.xml' file with content as such:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lint>
    <ignore path="build" />
</lint>

for example to ignore build path of that project.

edited Dec 18 '15 at 12:38

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answered Aug 18 '14 at 10:07

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This doesn't seem to work as of the latest version of lint. I placed the lint.xml in the root of my project (where the gradlew binary typically goes) and also added `app/build` to the ignore path. Am I missing something? – Vicky Chijwani Jun 05 '16 at 13:18
see @Idolon's post below – miller the gorilla Feb 15 '18 at 10:59

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '16 at 12:23

I had to specify the issue id as well as the ignored path. The ignore path alone didn't work. Example with http://tools.android.com/tips/lint-checks lint check:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lint>
    <issue id="MissingTranslation">
        <ignore path="build"/>
    </issue>
</lint>

You can find the issue id list here. Your lint.xml is placed in your project directory.

Example:

./app/lint.xml

How to ignore complete folders for lint checking with gradle?

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