What Are Static Analysis Tools?

Static analysis tools help us write better code by locating, and sometimes fixing, errors for us.

They can be used to enforce formatting and styling conventions, point out code smells, and analyze complexity without having to actually execute the program.

In this video, you'll get a high level overview of what static analysis tools are, why they are useful, and learn of a few that you could start using in your Android projects.

1:07 Why Are They Useful?
1:30 Product Quality
2:04 Code Quality
2:50 Better Code Review
3:37 How Can You Use Them?
5:02 What's Available?

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[matt-g-recovers]

I just gotta say, after binging this series what a great find.
If you're an Android engineer today in the corporate world, you will rarely get to write an entire app or feature alone and most definitely there will be a thousand things you need to interface with.
At this stage we become Android Lead / DevOps engineers...
... and it's freaking awesome.
... downright amazing in some respects that something so huge and so many systems can work together.
CI/CD, and automation is a big part...architecture is pretty much the rest.
Great stuff. I have to check on what your doing now...

[GordWayne]

Would help if there were timestamps I could to jump to for each section