In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about one of Tor’s favorite topics: Lint! Specifically, we talk about Lint checks and the annotations that use them to enable better, more robust, and more self-documenting APIs.
Lint: It’s not just for pockets anymore.

Chapters:
Intro (00:00)
Lint checks for annotations (01:50)
Lint checks in Android (05:38)
Logic checks (07:34)
Color representations (10:01)
How does lint know the type of integer? (14:40)
Kotlin annotations (17:19)
Unsigned (20:10)
HalfFloat (22:25)
Thread annotations (25:12)
@CallSuper (28:18)
LayoutOpt (30:26)
Lint checks in AndroidX (32:00)
Restrict to annotation (36:45)
Writing your own custom Lint checks (39:51)
Lint testing framework (43:26)
Kotlin buildList Lint check example (45:25)
@Discouraged (48:15)
Wrap up (50:08)
@Deprecated Chet (50:50)

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Speaker: Chet Haase, Romain Guy, Tor Norbye
Products Mentioned: Android