Finding missing strings in Android

Issue

I am cleaning and rebuilding some of my project, and some phrases gets deleted from values.xml. Is there a way to detect these phrases which are deleted and get some kind of error in code before building.

Because currently I simply get crash in certain areas of app there phrases are missing and are being accessed by old code.

For example phrase partsone is not found in values anymore.

But code

Title.setText(context.getString(R.string.partsone));

looks good in eclipse and builds. Only crashes at runtime...

Solution

You may want to use lint. It has a check for missing strings and several other analyse tools on board.

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

More informations how to use Lint with Eclipse can be found at http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/improving-w-lint.html

Take care:

you will need the eclipse ADT Plugin installed to get lint working (for free) with eclipse. You can get the ADT Plugin at http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

After it is installed you can see the lint dialog at

Window > Show View > Other > Android > Lint Warnings.

Answered By - Emanuel