avoid lint when gradle execute check

Question

could someone tell me a way to avoid executing "lint" each time I run in gradle check?

I've defined in build.gradle

lintOptions { 

    quiet true 

}

However, it keeps doing this task. The problem is that it takes ages each time I have to do a check.

from command line ./gradlew clean build -x lint – Ankit Goel Sep 08 '17 at 16:24 — Ankit Goel, Sep 08 '17 at 16:24

score 86 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '14 at 23:20

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gradle build -x lint

Source: Gradle User Guide : Excluding Tasks

answered Jan 15 '14 at 23:20

kukido

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score 44 · Answer 2 · edited May 10 '15 at 11:46

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You can skip it using adding -x lint when you run the check task:

./gradlew check -x lint

If you want to skip it permanently you can add this to your build.gradle before apply plugin: 'com.android.application':

tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
    if (task.name.equals("lint")) {
        task.enabled = false
    }
}

edited May 10 '15 at 11:46

Display Name

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answered Jan 15 '14 at 21:17

rciovati

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Yes, finally I've started using this commands `./gradlew check -x lint` – Jose M Lechon Jan 16 '14 at 11:07
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For any future visitors, you may need to change "lint" to "lintVitalRelease" because #thegoogle renamed it. – xbakesx Mar 20 '14 at 02:38
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@xbakesx I just disable all task with name starting with "lint", seem to work well enough – Kai Nov 30 '14 at 04:17
to _which_ build.gradle? and _where_? the answer is not clear – Display Name May 10 '15 at 11:43
@SargeBorsch if you want to add the task.whenTaskAdded closure, you add it to your application module's build.gradle, and you can safely add that to the bottom of the file. – rastadrian Apr 13 '16 at 15:53
Please note that the whenTaskAdded closure solution is used, it will still invoke task dependencies, e.g. compiling all sources. – David Burström Feb 21 '17 at 11:33

TWiStErRob · Answer 3 · 2018-04-11T09:23:28.720

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I just disabled the task during project setup:

android {
    lintOptions {
        tasks.lint.enabled = false
    }
}

Note: it's not necessary to put the statement inside android.lintOptions, but since it's configuring lint, it's nice to have them together.

edited Apr 11 '18 at 09:23

answered Aug 16 '16 at 11:36

TWiStErRob

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perfect! worked for me. Had all other options but non worked except this – Akshat May 03 '18 at 19:08

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 07 '15 at 08:36

Set checkReleaseBuilds to false will disable lint check on release build. Add following scripts to your build.gradle file:

lintOptions {
     /**
     * Set whether lint should check for fatal errors during release builds. Default is true.
     * If issues with severity "fatal" are found, the release build is aborted.
     */
    checkReleaseBuilds false
}

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 18:42

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(Gradle 1.1.0, as packaged with Android Studio 1.1.0)

For anyone wondering how to do this with multiple subprojects, I ended up having to disable them using the root project build.gradle file like so:

task lintCheck() {
    getAllTasks(true).each {
        def lintTasks = it.value.findAll { it.name.contains("lint") }
        lintTasks.each {
            it.enabled = false
        }
    }
}

answered Mar 05 '15 at 18:42

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How / where do you call lintCheck() after it? – sandrstar Nov 18 '15 at 08:52
In my case I was able to add it as a dependency on build. – Zenel Nov 20 '15 at 20:59

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 28 '14 at 10:32

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If you happen to have different build variants, perhaps a more robust script solution would be

afterEvaluate {
  Set<Task> result = tasks.findAll { task -> task.name.startsWith('lintVital') }
  result.each { Task task ->
    task.enabled = false
  }
}

answered Aug 28 '14 at 10:32

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 08 '19 at 01:46

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use this code to disable all lint tasks using Gradle's new configuration avoidance API:

tasks.withType(com.android.build.gradle.tasks.LintBaseTask).configureEach {
    enabled = false
}

(tested on Android Gradle plugin 3.3.2.)

answered Apr 08 '19 at 01:46

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where you put it ? – Renetik Jul 09 '22 at 23:19

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 23 '23 at 03:32

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-x lint not worked for com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.4

you should use -x lintVitalRelease -x lint -x lintVitalSourceSets instead.

For example:

gradlew --stacktrace build -x lintVitalRelease -x lint -x lintVitalSourceSets

answered Mar 23 '23 at 03:32

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 24 '19 at 21:34

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If you still want the lint task to work you can also:

project.tasks.check.dependsOn.remove("lint")

answered Jun 24 '19 at 21:34

Yu Han

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Renetik · Answer 10 · 2022-07-10T00:08:18.130

In my case somehow nice solutions was not working so I looked in the error file lint-results-debug.txt and just disable errors that was actually not real issues in my code but more bugs of limited lint. Like this one:

.../Users/renetik/Development/renetik-instruments-android/project/renetik-instruments-library/src/main/res/layout/controller_chord.xml:9: Error: No orientation specified, and the default is horizontal. This is a common source of bugs when children are added dynamically. [Orientation]...

So I added to module build gradle of renetik-instruments-library

android {
    ...
    lintOptions {
        disable 'IncludeLayoutParam', 'Orientation', 'UseAppTint'
    }
}

Now build works... and useful lint checks still there.

But also for build performance improvement of complex project this can be miracle:

afterEvaluate {
    tasks.findAll { it.name.startsWith('lint') }.each { it.enabled = false }
}

But you have to place or included in each module build.gradle it doesn't work in project build.gradle If its correctly aplied you can see

Task :renetik-instruments-app:lintVitalAnalyzeDebug SKIPPED

in Build Output console.

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