Do you know if there’s any way to prevent the use of part of the native SDK in Android Studio ? For ...

# android

[Antoine Gagnon]

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)

[Brandon Trautmann]

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

[Brandon Trautmann]

In our case, the Android Log utility.

[Kris Wong]

you can also override getSharedPreferences on your application class

[Brandon Trautmann]

Assuming your LocalStorage is of type SharedPreferences, that is 🙂

[Brandon Trautmann]

Or whatever getSharedPreferences returns...

[Antoine Gagnon]

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

[Brandon Trautmann]

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

[Kris Wong]

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

[Kris Wong]

perhaps plug into strict mode

[Brandon Trautmann]

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

[Brandon Trautmann]

Gives you the benefit of finding those issues at build/merge time versus runtime

[Kris Wong]

i never said lint is not a good way to go

[Kris Wong]

i would go both ways