I had started to work on a CL that (maybe) fixed some of this, but never finished it. I'll take a look.

More points to make!

1. I typically was using "make project" because that's what the lint video from ADS shows. https://youtu.be/ffH-LD5uP4s?t=1140

2. In the sample project, If I Right click activity main.xml > analyze > inspect code > Inspection Scope [FILE]
"No lint errors found." This is also weird. You would think that maybe forcefully inspecting the code would create the lint.jar file?

3. In my sample project, running ./gradlew lintDebug makes lint checks work in the IDE again. Amazing! Here is the output for example:

```
coltonidle:CustomLintChecksDoNotWork cidle$ ./gradlew lintDebug

> Task :app:lintDebug FAILED
Wrote HTML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/CustomLintChecksDoNotWork/app/build/reports/lint-results-debug.html
Wrote XML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/CustomLintChecksDoNotWork/app/build/reports/lint-results-debug.xml

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

```

Okay. That makes sense. Failed because of my custom lint error. Now let me try my production project that is a pretty big project, but it's not ridiculously complex. Pretty standard. I do have a few extra modules for a few custom views.

```
> Configure project :app
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)

> Task :customView1:lintDebug
Wrote HTML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView1/build/reports/lint-results-debug.html
Wrote XML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView1/build/reports/lint-results-debug.xml

> Task :customView2:lintDebug
Wrote HTML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView2/build/reports/lint-results-debug.html
Wrote XML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView2/build/reports/lint-results-debug.xml

> Task :customView3:lintDebug
Wrote HTML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView3/build/reports/lint-results-debug.html
Wrote XML report to file:///Users/coltonidle/project/myapp/customView3/build/reports/lint-results-debug.xml

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 22s
```

Hmmm. That's weird. Successful and not failed (like the sample) and also... where is my :app module outputs?

I see that in all my modules I have

    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }

but in my app module I have

    lintOptions {
        checkReleaseBuilds false
        // Or, if you prefer, you can continue to check for errors in release builds,
        // but continue the build even when errors are found:
        abortOnError false
    }

so I thought maybe checkReleaseBuilds false, was the cause of some lint issue. But no. When I removed it, it still didn't show. So now I have another problem seemingly where lintDebug won't process my app module

4. Running ./gradlew assemble fails for me because it tries to run a release with signing configs I don't have available. Maybe this is the cause of why lint checks don't work via ./gradlew lintDebug?

Will keep investigating!