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After updating to AGP 8.5 and Lint 31.5.0, Lint complains when TextView text is set to an empty string. For example, appCompatTextView.text = "". Error appears in Android Studio (empty string is highlighted), but also ./gradlew app:lintDebug fails.

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I believe logs are irrelevant because ./gradlew app:lintDebug executed from the terminal also give the same error.

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There is an example code that violates Lint SetTextI18n.

class SetTextExample(val textView: AppCompatTextView) {
    fun test() {
        textView.text = "" // This line violates Lint SetTextI18n
    }
}

class MyCustomTextView: AppCompatTextView {

    constructor(context: Context): super(context)

    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet): super(context, attrs)

    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet, defStyleAttr: Int): super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr)
    init {
        text = "" // This line violates Lint SetTextI18n 
    }
}

Build: AI-241.15989.150.2411.11948838, 202406102054
AS: Koala | 2024.1.1
AI-241.15989.150.2411.11948838, JRE 17.0.10+0-17.0.10b1087.21-11609105x64 JetBrains s.r.o., OS Mac OS X(aarch64) v14.5, screens 2560.0x1440.0
Android Gradle Plugin: 8.5.0
Gradle: 8.7
Gradle JDK: JetBrains Runtime 17.0.10 - aarch64
NDK: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found)
CMake: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found), from PATH: (not found)