Do you know if there’s any way to prevent the use of part of the native SDK in Android Studio ? For instance, I don’t want developers to be able to use SharedPreferences and want to force them to use another class I made called LocalStorage (or at least give them the deprecated warning)

On our team we write custom lint rules to prohibit use of certain classes

you can also override getSharedPreferences on your application class

Assuming your

LocalStorage

is of type

SharedPreferences

, that is 🙂

LocalStorage wouldn’t be of the type SharedPreferences. But I do think doing it via lint rules is the right call!

Feel free to reach out if you're just jumping into lint rules and need guidance -- also utilize the

lint-dev

google group 👍

i mean, you can log a warning, throw an exception (not recommended), get creative

Any reason you think lint isn't the way to go here @Kris Wong?

i never said lint is not a good way to go