Enable Android Studio spell checking on language specific strings.xml files

Question

In Android Studio, spellchecking seems to be disabled for language specific strings.xml files (and I understand why it would be disabled by default).

But is it possible to enable it, to check values, for a couple of those files? ("fr/strings.xml" for example), or at least run it on demand.

Answer 1

To avoid or to enforce spellchecking you could add tools:locale to the <resources> tag in your string xml.

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:locale="en">

This tells Lint your resources' locale.

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