Suppress "Identifier not allowed in Android"

Question

For my application written in Kotlin I use backticked method names for tests, like this:

fun `API login error - don't save token or user`() {

It works, the tests compile and work without a problem, but Lint in Android Studio is marking those methods as error with message Identifier not allowed in Android.

Is there any way to suppress this so that the Lint check passes without errors and it's not marked with red underline in Android Studio?

score 65 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '17 at 07:06

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Based on wnc_21 answer I found that it can be disabled for a specific scope, in my case it's only used in tests so there's that.

answered Mar 01 '17 at 07:06

Michał Klimczak

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score 30 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '17 at 22:24

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Use:

@file:Suppress("IllegalIdentifier")

on the top of the file

answered Jun 24 '17 at 22:24

MarcinM

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This is a great answer as gives you more granular control and can be shared with other users that clone your code – Juan Saravia Sep 23 '17 at 01:31
It's more elegant and flexible way! – Onik Sep 12 '18 at 14:17

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '17 at 14:54

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I am not sure if you can do it in code, but you can at least disable it in the IDE. Go to "File | Settings | Editor | Inspections | Illegal Android Identifier" and disable this inspection.

answered Feb 27 '17 at 14:54

wnc_21

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score 14 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 27 '17 at 13:43

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I use

@Suppress("IllegalIdentifier")

example

@Suppress("IllegalIdentifier")
class SignUpTest {

answered Oct 27 '17 at 13:43

Jakub S.

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 22 '18 at 09:28

There's a way to suppress Lint checks from a Lint configuration file instead of annotating each and every single file or whatever with @Suppress. Note that it only affects builds executed from command line. I still haven't figured out how to make Android Studio use this configuration file for code inspections.

Android Gradle plugin has lintConfig property under lintOptions in its DSL.

It allows you to specify the path to a Lint configuration xml file. The feature is documented here.

An example Lint config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lint>
    <!-- Disable the given check in this project -->
    <issue id="IllegalIdentifier">
        <ignore path="**/androidTest/**" />
        <ignore path="**/test/**" />
    </issue>
</lint>

This way, code inspection configuration is part of the codebase and is shared among all developers.

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 21 '21 at 16:26

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I got this error when I intended to add a new test class into test package but added it to the androidTest by mistake.

It got solved after moving the class into the correct test package.

answered Apr 21 '21 at 16:26

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Suppress "Identifier not allowed in Android"

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