Qodana Community for Android

Qodana Community for Android is based on IntelliJ IDEA with the Android Support plugin and provides static analysis for Android projects. It brings all the smarts from IntelliJ IDEA, which help you:

detect anomalous code and probable bugs
eliminate dead code
highlight spelling problems
improve overall code structure
introduce coding best practices
Upload inspection results to Qodana Cloud

Qodana Community for Android provides inspections for Java, Kotlin, and Groovy.

Supported technologies

Qodana Community for Android provides inspections for the following technologies.

Programming languages	Java Kotlin Groovy
Markup languages	HTML JSON and JSON5 RELAX NG TOML XML XPath XSLT YAML
Scripting languages	Shell script
Build management	Ant Gradle Maven
Frameworks and libraries	JavaBeans JavaFX JUnit Lombok TestNG

Supported features

The Qodana Community for Android linter provides the following Qodana features:

Feature	Available under the license
Baseline	Community
Quality gate	Community

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Analyze a project locally

To be able to run the analysis, make sure the project can be successfully built and run in the desired environment, that is, a JRE is properly configured, project dependencies are installed, build scripts or startup tasks are executed, and so on.

Qodana provides two options for local analysis of your code. Qodana CLI is the easiest option to start. Alternatively, you can use the Docker command from the Docker image tab.

Assuming that you have already installed Qodana CLI on your machine, you can run this command in the project root directory:

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       -l jetbrains/qodana-jvm-android:2023.3 \
                       --show-report
                

Here, the QODANA_TOKEN variable refers to the project token.

To start, pull the image from Docker Hub (only necessary to get the latest version):

docker pull jetbrains/qodana-jvm-android:2023.3

Start local analysis with source-directory pointing to the root of your project and QODANA_TOKEN referring to the project token:

                    docker run --rm -it \
                       -v <source-directory>/:/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       -p 8080:8080 \
                       jetbrains/qodana-jvm-android:2023.3 \
                       --show-report
                

Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser to examine inspection results. Here, you can also reconfigure the analysis, see the Inspection report section for details. When done, you can stop the web server by pressing Ctrl-C in the console.

Android Gradle plugin compatibility

The compatibility table is available on the Android Developers website. However, Qodana and Android Studio may differ. For example, Qodana 2023.2 used version 2022.3 of Android Studio, so you need to choose the Android Gradle plugin version that will be suitable in this case.

Next steps

Last modified: 12 April 2024