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.

Answer 1

gradle build -x lint 

Source: Gradle User Guide : Excluding Tasks

Answer 2

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
    }
}

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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
}

Answer 5

(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
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

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
  }
}

Answer 7

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.)

Answer 8

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

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

Answer 9

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.