android-lint

Following the Google developer instructions on implementing Firebase in my app , I notice that android lint complains. The idea is that we have to implement two services which inherit from Firebase services: public class MyFirebaseInstanceIDService extends FirebaseInstanceIdService { ... } public class MyFirebaseMessagingService extends FirebaseMessagingService { ... } and then register those services in the manifest. But, it's not quite perfect. In particular, these two recommended AndroidManifest.xml service entries do not contain any special permissions: <service android:name="

I am an android beginner. While trying a code of managing activity life cycle, I encountered a new thing. package com.example.activitylaunch; import android.os.Build; import android.os.Bundle; import android.annotation.SuppressLint; import android.app.ActionBar; import android.app.Activity; import android.view.Menu; import android.widget.TextView; @SuppressLint("NewApi") public class MainActivity extends Activity { TextView mTextView; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); mTextView = (TextView)

I was just building some UI in xml, and Lint gave me a warning and said to set android:baselineAligned to false to improve performance in ListView. The docs for the Lint changes that added this warning say Layout performance: Finds LinearLayouts with weights where you should set android:baselineAligned="false" for better performance, and also finds cases where you have nested weights which can cause performance problems. Can somebody explain why this improves performance, specifically when weight is involved? Nima G By setting android:baselineAligned="false" , you're preventing the extra work

I am getting warning as "[Accessibility] Missing contentDescription attribute on image" for imageview. while using android lint What does that mean? Santhosh Shettigar Resolved this warning by setting attribute android:contentDescription for my ImageView android:contentDescription="@string/desc" Android Lint support in ADT 16 throws this warning to ensure that image widgets provide a contentDescription. This defines text that briefly describes content of the view. This property is used primarily for accessibility. Since some views do not have textual representation this attribute can be used