When using the latest version of your script, the console output correctly prints out the message

removing ('dimen', "<dimen_name>") from resource ./res/values/dimens.xml removing ('string', "<string_name>") from resource ./res/values/strings.xml

for all dimens and strings files but doesn't actually remove the said unused resource from the file. Is this a known issue?

After installing (via sudo pip install android-resource-remover) successfully, cd-ing into the app directory and executing android-resource-remover I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/android-resource-remover", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('android-resource-remover==0.1.5', 'console_scripts', 'android-resource-remover')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 141, in main
    lint_result_path, app_dir, ignore_layouts = run_lint_command()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 77, in run_lint_command
    call_result = subprocess.call([lint, app_dir, '--xml', lint_result])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Environment :

• Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Python 2.7.6
• Android Studio 1.3
• JRE 1.8

Help Appreciated :)

Hi, Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it into for two days so decided to get some help. For some reasons I'm not able to use your suggested command, ./gradlew clean build :lint && android-resource-remover --xml build/outputs/lint-results.xml.

• build tries to create a release and since I'm work on company project and its credential isn't in build.gradle file so process fails.
• Gradle :lint is not in root of your project.

So what I do is I first create a debug .apk in normal way. Second, I run lint from Gradle window, My-app/app/verification/lint. So lint-results.xml will be created in my build/output folder. I run this command in terminal now android-resource-remover --xml build/outputs/lint-results.xml. Then I get following error.

I'm using Android Studio 2.0 Preview 5 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.

When I run android-resource-remover inside the project directory under Ubuntu Trusty, it results in:

*Help text*
[...]
Running the command failed. Try running it from the console. Arguments for subprocess.call: ['lint', '.', '--xml', './lint-result.xml']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/android-resource-remover", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('android-resource-remover==0.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'android-resource-remover')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 137, in main
    issues = parse_lint_result(lint_result_path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 85, in parse_lint_result
    root = ET.parse(lint_result_path).getroot()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1182, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 647, in parse
    source = open(source, "rb")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './lint-result.xml'

         I run the command "pip instatll android-resource-remover", then received an error like that:

unicodeDecodeerror gbk codec can't decode byte 0x80

@ca77y So i ran your tool with lint results xml file and it gave me a bunch of output mentioning removing strings ... all the output was mentioning removal of strings from libraries that are used inside the project, none of the actual unused resources from strings.xml and drawable folders were removed. I ran lint again in android studio and all the unused icons were still there

Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Python\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in run_module_as_main "main", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "D:\Python\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in run_code exec code in run_globals File "D:\Python\Scripts\android-resource-remover.exe__main.py", line 9, in File "D:\Python\lib\site-packages\android_clean_app.py", line 141, in main lint_result_path, app_dir, ignore_layouts = run_lint_command() File "D:\Python\lib\site-packages\android_clean_app.py", line 78, in run_lint_ command call_result = subprocess.call([lint, app_dir, '--xml', lint_result]) File "D:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 522, in call return Popen(_popenargs, *_kwargs).wait() File "D:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 710, in init errread, errwrite) File "D:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child startupinfo) WindowsError: [Error 2]

Here the XML node with lint 24.0.1

    <issue
        id="ExtraTranslation"
        severity="Error"
        message="&quot;`loading_more`&quot; is translated here but not found in default locale"
        category="Correctness:Messages"
        priority="6"
        summary="Extra translation"
        explanation="If a string appears in a specific language translation file, but there is no corresponding string in the default locale, then this string is probably unused. (It&apos;s technically possible that your application is only intended to run in a specific locale, but it&apos;s still a good idea to provide a fallback.).

Note that these strings can lead to crashes if the string is looked up on any locale not providing a translation, so it&apos;s important to clean them up."
        errorLine1="    &lt;string name=&quot;loading_more&quot;>Chargement&lt;/string>"
        errorLine2="            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~">
        <location
            file="res/values-fr/strings.xml"
            line="5"
            column="13"/>
    </issue>

The lint parser add an extra '`' in the resource name which don't remove the res value

removing ('string', 'loading_more`') from resource res/values/strings.xml

Used OSX Maverick with an output of Gradle Lint :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<issues format="4" by="lint 24.0.1">
...

Run the "android-resource-remover" command in ubuntu, it's output error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/android-resource-remover", line 9, in load_entry_point('android-resource-remover==0.1.5', 'console_scripts', 'android-resource-remover')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 141, in main lint_result_path, app_dir, ignore_layouts = run_lint_command() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/android_clean_app.py", line 77, in run_lint_command call_result = subprocess.call([lint, app_dir, '--xml', lint_result]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call return Popen(_popenargs, *_kwargs).wait() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in init errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

# pip install android-resource-remover

in terminal : at the very bottom

Command "/usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/ht/sg39cnfx7b7fpz5jx65r8tvc0000gp/T/pip-build-CuOnJy/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/ht/sg39cnfx7b7fpz5jx65r8tvc0000gp/T/pip-_D9qqa-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/ht/sg39cnfx7b7fpz5jx65r8tvc0000gp/T/pip-build-CuOnJy/lxml

Environment :

OSX El-Capitan XCode CLI Is installed

Bumps lxml from 3.3.3 to 4.9.1.

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when we develop android app, we import 3rd part dependency. Some of them have resource, which should be imported by handle. some 3rd part resource are used, some are not used.

how to remove these resource without using?