How to make Android Studio build fail on lint errors

Question

Is it possible to make Android Studio build fail on lint check errors ? I have problems with ImageViews when I convert icon from .png to vector drawable .xml Sometimes I forgot to change android:src="@drawable/ic_minus" to app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_minus" and the app crashes on older OS devices.

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Answer 1

If there's a lint check for that you can change the severity to FATAL and then when building the release version of your APK it should fail.

android {
  lintOptions {
    fatal 'MY_LINT_CHECK_ID'
  }
}

Also you can execute the Gradle lint task which will fail. If you also want warnings to let your build fail you can use this.

android {
  lintOptions {
    warningsAsErrors true
  }
}