How do you find unused Kotlin code with IDEA? I only see the inspection "Unused declaration" for Jav...

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[Stefan Oltmann]

How do you find unused Kotlin code with IDEA?
I only see the inspection "Unused declaration" for Java.

[Morgane Soula]

You should have an option called « Inspect code » into the « Code » menu

[Stefan Oltmann]

You should have an option called « Inspect code » into the « Code » menu

There is no inspection/rule for unused Kotlin method as far as I can see.
How is it called?

[Morgane Soula]

I don't have IntelliJ anymore on my computer but I suppose it is the same as Android Studio. Whenever I want to find unused code (whatever it is Java or Kotlin) I run "Inspect code" for the whole project. A window will open at the bottom of your IDEA and you will see everything that need to be fixed (like unused code)

[Stefan Oltmann]

There seems to be no unused code for Kotlin, just for Java.
That's why I'm asking.

[Morgane Soula]

Okay! Then I can't help. Sorry!

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thank you for trying. 🙏

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Inspection “Kotlin | Redundant constructs | Unused symbol”

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thank you. I did not consider a method a "symbol". I see that it finds both, properties and functions.

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Symbol is a weird name I think. We should probably use “declaration” too.

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-26274/Rename-inspection-Unused-symbol-to-Unused-declaration

[Stefan Oltmann]

Great, thank you 🙂