Right place to put `@SuppressLint("ExifInterface")`?

Issue

Android Studio 4.1 suggests avoiding using android.media.exifinterface and using android.support.media.exifinterface instead. We may want to suppress it, e.g., if the project has min SDK API 24, and it is known that android.media.exifinterface is fine for API 24 and above.

Android Studio's context menu gives Add @SuppressLint("ExifInterface") but nothing happens on clicking that. Adding @SuppressLint("ExifInterface") in several places (trying one at a time, of course) doesn't work, e.g.,

• the line immediately above the import android.media.exifinterface; statement
• the line before the package line at the top of the whole file

Where is the right place to add this @SuppressLint annotation?

Solution

Like you, I cannot find a place for the @SuppressLint that works to suppress a Lint warning on an import statement. 😕

In this case, my guess is that you would want to be suppressing this module-wide anyway. I cannot think of a scenario where you would want to use the framework ExifInterface in some places and the library ExifInterface in others. So, you could use stuff like lint.xml or lintOptions in the module's build.gradle file to suppress it for the entire module.

Answered By - CommonsWare