Recompile with -Xlint in Android studio

Staying out of deprecated methods is useful, so your app won’t run in some compatibility mode on the device. Plus having clean build output is also nice 🙂

While building an app, Gradle may produces some warnings telling you that some input files are using unchecked or unsafe operations or they are overriding a deprecated API.

Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

As the message suggest, we should recompile with -Xlint to get more details about the warnings.

In the app level build.gradle file

app level build.gradle file

we should add a section labelled  allprojects{}(if not already present).

In the allprojects{} section we will instruct Gradle to apply custom compiler arguments for each task involving  Java code compilation.

allprojects {
    tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
        options.compilerArgs << "-Xlint:unchecked" << "-Xlint:deprecation"
    }
}

Now each time we build our app we will get detailed output of the unchecked or unsafe operations and the deprecated API we are using.

Tip: if for some reason we want to continue using a deprecated API and just suppress the warnings, we could annotate the deprecated method with the

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")

annotation.

3 thoughts on “Recompile with -Xlint in Android studio

  1. Renan

    tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
    options.compilerArgs << “-Xlint:unchecked” << “- } = Error

    tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
    options.compilerArgs << "-Xlint:unchecked" << "-Xlint:deprecation"}
    = OK

    Android Gradle Plugin = 3.5.0
    Gradle Version = 5.4.1

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