Android Studio lint.xml configuration

Question

I would like to configure lint in Android Studio to ignore some file. I have placed the lint.xml file in app/ folder. Here is the content of the lint file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lint>
    <issue id="UnusedResources">
        <ignore path="res/drawable/background_palette_drawable_6.xml" />
    </issue>
</lint>

When I run lint to check for unused resources it still finds this file as unused.

In app build.gradle I have:

lintOptions {
    disable 'InvalidPackage'
    abortOnError false
    absolutePaths false
    lintConfig file('lint.xml')
}

I have tried changing the file path to /app/src/main/res/drawable/background_palette_drawable_6.xml and still it does not work.

I put <issue id="UnusedResources" severity="ignore"> and in that case it just ignores all the unused resources so it seems the file lint.xml is found correctly but maybe something is wrong with the path?

Answer 1

Consider using path="**/background_palette_drawable_6.xml" with the ** glob pattern to match the file regardless of its location.