Currently, with android.lintOptions.textReport true, lint will output results to stdout when the AndroidLintTask (e.g., lintDebug) runs, but there will be no such output if the task is up-to-date, which might mislead users to think that there are no lint issues.

The desired behavior is for lint to output issues to stdout even if the task is up-to-date (or not to output anything if there are no issues - see Issue 158259845).

A possible fix would be to add a new lightweight task which would never be up-to-date and would only print the text report. I.e., change the lint build flow from this:

lintAnalyzeDebug -> lintDebug

to this:

lintAnalyzeDebug -> lintReportDebug -> lintDebug

where the new lintReportDebug task is the old lintDebug task, and the new lintDebug is the lightweight task that is never up-to-date.

Rejected alternative:

I considered modifying AndroidLintCopyReportTask to print out the text report, but that task will not run if AndroidLintTask is up-to-date. In fact, we can consider adding that task's functionality to the new lightweight lint task to properly fix Issue 189877657

PS - Thanks to Tor for noticing this issue :)