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Detect unused imports in Kotlin without IntelliJ? (reddthat.com)
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Is it even possible? It seems every third-party tool that did it is abandoning the feature and I can't get the deprecated but still present feature to work in Detekt or ktlint. I didn't realise the biggest challenge with Kotlin would be detecting unused import statements so I can easily remove them.

Edit: Thanks for the help everyone, but I could not get anything working so I eventually just did it manually with a little help from the android linter.

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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My bad, I think the option I mentioned might have existed at some point but doesn't now.

Sadly it's probably a moating strategy for jetbrains to have that as an IDE exclusive feature.

The best you can probably do is trying to dig out that functionality from the android studio source ... https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/studio-master-dev/studio.md

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