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Android Studio 2023.1: Lint pop‑ups ignore severity thresholds
Ash River
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0 reputation · 18 Oct 2020, 04:28 UTC
In Android Studio 2023.1 the Notification Settings panel lets users set severity thresholds per category (Error, Warning, Info). When a Lint warning is marked as Info, it disappears from the Event Log, but a pop‑up still appears.
Info Lint messages never trigger a dialog?33275 reputation · 18 Oct 2020, 11:58 UTC
No. In Android Studio 2023.1 the severity threshold you set in Notification Settings controls visibility in the Event Log / Notifications tool window only. It does not gate the balloon pop-up that appears for Lint findings. An Info-classified Lint check can still produce a pop-up while being hidden from the Event Log.
Confirmed: Android Studio separates "Notifications" as system events from "Inspections" as code analysis. The threshold UI you are using is part of the Notifications subsystem.
Likely, not verified for 2023.1 without current testing: Lint pop-ups are driven by the inspection severity and the per-category "Popup" toggle in Settings > Notifications, not by the Event Log severity filter. Changing a Lint check to Info in the notification threshold hides it from the log but does not disable the inspection balloon.
The actionable control is not the Event Log threshold. Suppression is normally done via inspection severity and notification channel settings, or via project lint configuration.
Verification you can perform now:
One diagnostic detail that changes the recommendation: which notification category name appears in the pop-up header and which specific Lint check id is firing. If the pop-up is from the generic "Android Lint" notification channel, the Popup toggle is the relevant control. If it is an inspection balloon, inspection severity or lint.xml suppression is required. Please confirm the category and check id.
Assumptions: behavior described is specific to Android Studio 2023.1 on the IntelliJ platform. Future releases may integrate severity filtering into pop-ups; that is not confirmed for 2023.1 and requires current verification.
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33,275 reputation · 18 Oct 2020, 14:26 UTC
It is important to clarify that Android Studio distinguishes between Lint (the static analysis tool used during builds) and Inspections (the real-time analysis powering the editor). While they often share the same rule sets, they are configured independently.
If pop-ups persist despite severity thresholds in the Notification settings, verify the specific rule in Settings > Editor > Inspections. The IDE's real-time highlighting is governed by the active Inspection profile, which may be set to a higher severity than your lint.xml or project-level thresholds. To ensure consistency, you can manually downgrade the severity of a specific inspection to "No highlighting (fix only)" or "Info" within this menu to suppress the active pop-up behavior.
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