Bear proposal : AndroidBear

[satwikkansal]

Apart from the IntelliJ and Eclipse integrations, Android's "lint" also has a CLI tool which can be wrapped to make AndroidBear.

http://tools.android.com/tips/lint/
http://tools.android.com/tips/lint-checks

[mridubhatnagar]

Please can you elaborate the approach that is needed to write AndroidBear.

[satwikkansal]

Hey, so the basic idea is to wrap http://tools.android.com/tips/lint/ into a bear. For the approach, you can read https://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Writing_Linter_Bears.html guide.

[naman1901]

Hi. I'm new here, could you explain where the .exe file for this will go in the package? The tutorial works with pylint which can be installed via pip. Where does the android lint exe go?

[jayvdb]

You would declare an ExecutableRequirement on lint.
Then the caller needs to have that program in their PATH, and the bear will work.

[Makman2]

I'm not sure if Android Studio (which is the usual way to install Android dev tools) places those tools into the PATH. We should have a fallback checking for example for ANDROID_SDK_HOME environment variable.

[theevangelista]

The Android Studio does not include ANDROID_HOME env var by default, the user needs to do it to use external tools not integrated by AS, so to use the lint executable, the user will need to put the path ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin on the PATH so lint is usable, usually Android devs puts the ANDROID_HOME as soon as AS is installed, since it is widely used.

[Makman2]

So seems there are many different ways to export those linting binaries. Looks like we have to write custom requirement classes accounting for the most popular ones^^ But shouldn't be too hard 👍

[aashraybhandar1]

Can someone guide me how to write tests for this bear ? Also should an option for various checks be provided?

[Makman2]

@aashraybhandar1 see other test files 👍

Also should an option for various checks be provided?

Definitely 👍