any way to suppress warnings about "hardcoded strings" in layout files?

Question

Is there a way I can suppress individual warnings about hardcoded strings in layout files?

I often put placeholder text into TextViews so that I can see them in layout at design time. The downside of this is getting a ton of these warnings about hardcoded strings. But without them I wouldn't see the TextViews at all in the layout.

Answer 1

You can add the following to the text view element:

tools:ignore="HardcodedText"

Example:

    <TextView
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="This is a hardcoded text"
        tools:ignore="HardcodedText" />

Note there is a shortcut in Eclipse for adding this easily: just press CTRL + 1 and select the relevant option.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to do this for a whole layout, you will have to do it for each element.

Note that you must also add the xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools attribute to the root element

Answer 2

The other way is to use tools:text instead of android:text:

<TextView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    tools:text="This is a hardcoded text" />

Note that you must also add the xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools attribute to the root element

Answer 3

In Eclipse, go to Window->Preferences->Android->Lint Error Checking.

Scroll down to and select Hardcoded Text (under Internationalization). On the Severity drop down box, select Ignore and click on Apply.

Answer 4

Use string.xml file to remove this warning....

You have to put your string in string.xml file and then give like android:text="@string/mytext"

And in res-->value->string.xml add <string name="mytext">Your Text</string>

http://tools.android.com/tips/lint