Updating your version name on Android is easy and probably takes you less than 5 minutes, but we write software, so why manually do it when we can automate it?

This post explains how to set Android Studio so that when you press CTRL + S to save the code, code reformatting will also be run automatically. I find myself constantly hitting CTRL + S when I’m writing, so for me this was the easiest way to make sure the code reformatting was constantly being run.

Static analysis is an important tool to run over any code base, it can sniff out potential bugs, bad practices, and general formatting errors. This will go over the use and setup of three such tools in the context of Android.