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?

Answer 1

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>