Meet detekt, a static code analysis tool for the Kotlin programming language. It operates on the abstract syntax tree provided by the Kotlin compiler.

• Code smell analysis for your Kotlin projects
• Complexity report based on logical lines of code, McCabe complexity and amount of code smells
• Highly configurable
• Suppress findings with Kotlin's @Suppress and Java's @SuppressWarnings annotations
• Specify code smell thresholds to break your build
• Code Smell baseline and ignore lists for legacy projects
• Gradle plugin for code analysis via Gradle builds
• Gradle tasks to use local IntelliJ distribution for formatting and inspecting Kotlin code
• SonarQube integration
• Extensible by own rule sets, FileProcessListener's and OutputReport's
• IntelliJ integration
• Unofficial Maven plugin by Ozsie

Visit https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/ for installation guides, release notes, migration guides, rule descriptions and configuration options.

• Changelog and migration guides: https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/changelog.html
• Available CLI options: https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/cli.html
• Rule set and rule descriptions: https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/complexity.html
• Writing custom rules and extending detekt: https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/extensions.html
• Suppressing findings? https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/suppressing-rules.html https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/baseline.html
• Configuring detekt? https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/configurations.html
• Sample gradle integrations examples
  • multi project (kotlin dsl): https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/master/build.gradle.kts
  • single project (groovy dsl): https://github.com/arturbosch/kutils/blob/master/build.gradle
  • single project (unofficial maven plugin): https://github.com/arturbosch/sonar-kotlin/blob/master/pom.xml
  • setup additional detekt task for all modules (kotlin dsl): https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/3357abba87e1550c65b6610012bb291e0fbb64ce/build.gradle.kts#L280-L295
  • setup additional formatting task for all modules (kotlin dsl): https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/3357abba87e1550c65b6610012bb291e0fbb64ce/build.gradle.kts#L262-L278

• git clone https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt
• cd detekt
• ./gradlew build shadowJar
• java -jar detekt-cli/build/libs/detekt-cli-[version]-all.jar --help

Gradle 4.9+ is required:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

plugins {
    id("io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt").version("[version]")
}

detekt {
    toolVersion = "[version]"
    input = files("src/main/kotlin")
    filters = ".*/resources/.*,.*/build/.*"
    baseline = file("my-detekt-baseline.xml") // Just if you want to create a baseline file.
}

See bintray for releases and artifactory for snapshots.

detekt itself provides a wrapper over KtLint as a formatting rule set which can be easily added to the gradle configuration:

dependencies {
    detektPlugins "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-formatting:[version]"
}

Likewise custom extensions can be added to detekt.

If you contributed to detekt but your name is not in the list, please feel free to add yourself to it!

• Artur Bosch - Maintainer
• Marvin Ramin - Collaborator, Bunch of rules, Active on Issues, refactorings, MultiRule
• schalks - Collaborator, Active on Issues, Bunch of rules, Project metrics
• Niklas Baudy - Active on Issues, Bunch of rules, Bug fixes
• lummax - Cli enhancements
• Svyatoslav Chatchenko - Active on Issues, NamingConventions and UnusedImport fixes
• Sean Flanigan - Config from classpath resource
• Sebastian Schuberth - Active on Issues, Windows support
• Olivier Lemasle - NP-Bugfix, rules fixes, Gradle plugin improvement
• Marc Prengemann - Support for custom output formats, prototyped Rule-Context-Issue separation
• Sebastiano Poggi - Enhanced milestone report script, Magic number fixes
• Ilya Tretyakov - Sonar runs should not auto correct formatting.
• Andrey T - Readme fix
• Ivan Balaksha - Rules: UnsafeCast, SpreadOperator, UnsafeCallOnNullableType, LabeledExpression
• Anna Y - Readme fix
• Karol Wrótniak - Treat comments as not empty blocks
• Radim Vaculik - VariableMaxLength - bugfix
• Martin Nonnenmacher - UndocumentedPublicClass - enum support
• Dmytro Troynikov - Updated Magic Number rule to ignore Named Arguments
• Andrew Ochsner - Updated Readme for failFast option
• Paul Merlin - Gradle build improvements
• Konstantin Aksenov - Coding improvement
• Matthew Haughton - Added type resolution, Dependency updates, Coding + Documentation improvements
• Janusz Bagiński - Fixed line number reporting for MaxLineLengthRule
• Mike Kobit - Gradle build improvements
• Philipp Hofmann - Readme improvements
• Olivier PEREZ - Fixed Typo in Readme
• Sebastian Kaspari - Html-Output-Format, Documentation fix
• Ilya Zorin - Rule improvement: UnnecessaryAbstractClass
• Gesh Markov - Improve error message for incorrect configuration file
• Patrick Pilch - Rule improvement: ReturnCount
• Serj Lotutovici - Rule improvement: LongParameterList
• Dmitry Primshyts - Rule improvement: MagicNumber
• Egor Neliuba - Rule improvement: EmptyFunctionBlock, EmptyClassBlock
• Said Tahsin Dane - Gradle plugin improvements
• Misa Torres - Added: TrailingWhitespace and NoTabs rules
• R.A. Porter - Updated Readme links to RuleSets
• Robbin Voortman - Rule improvement: MaxLineLength
• Mike Gorunov — Rule improvement: UndocumentedPublicFunction
• Joey Kaan - New rule: MandatoryBracesIfStatements
• Dmitriy Samaryan - Rule fix: SerialVersionUIDInSerializableClass
• Mariano Simone - Rule improvement: UnusedPrivateMember. New Rules: UnusedPrivateClass, VarCouldBeVal
• Shunsuke Maeda - Fix: to work on multi module project using maven plugin
• Mikhail Levchenko - New rules: Unnecessary let, ExplicitItLambdaParameter
• Scott Kennedy - Minor fixes
• Mickele Moriconi - Added: ConstructorParameterNaming and FunctionParameterNaming rules
• Lukasz Jazgar - Fixed configuring formatting rules
• Pavlos-Petros Tournaris - Lazy evaluation of Regex in Rules
• Erhard Pointl - Kotlin DSL and Gradle enhancements
• Tyler Thrailkill - FunctionNaming rule enhancements
• Tarek Belkahia - TooManyFunctions rule options
• Bournane Abdelkrim - Fix typos
• Rafael Toledo - Fix Gradle plugin badge
• Alberto Ballano - ExceptionRaisedInUnexpectedLocation rule improvements
• Guido Pio Mariotti - Documentation improvement
• Mygod - UnusedImports rule improvement
• Andreas Volkmann - yaml code comments
• glammers - Documentation improvement
• Ahmad El-Melegy - yaml syntax fix
• Arjan Kleene - Add unnecessary apply rule
• Paweł Gajda - Rule improvement: FunctionParameterNaming
• Alistair Sykes - Doc improvement
• Andrew Arnott - UnusedPrivateMember improvement
• Tyler Wong - UnderscoresInNumericLiterals rule
• Daniele Conti - ObjectPropertyNaming improvement
• Nicola Corti - Fixed Suppress of MaxLineLenght
• Michael Lotkowski - Rule improvement: False positive UnusedImport for componentN
• Nuno Caro - Adds TXT report support on gradle plugin

As mentioned in...

• SBCARS '18 - Are you still smelling it?: A comparative study between Java and Kotlin language by Flauzino et al.
• KotlinConf 2018 - Safe(r) Kotlin Code - Static Analysis Tools for Kotlin by Marvin Ramin
• droidcon NYC 2018 - Static Code Analysis For Kotlin
• Kotlin on Code Quality Tools - by @vanniktech Slides Presentation
• @medium/acerezoluna/static-code-analysis-tools-for-kotlin-in-android
• @medium/annayan/writing-custom-lint-rules-for-your-kotlin-project-with-detekt
• Free Continuous Integration for modern Android apps with CircleCI
• Static code analysis for Kotlin in Android
• The Art of Android DevOps
• Android Basics: Continuous Integration
• Kotlin Static Analysis — why and how?
• Check the quality of Kotlin code

Integrations:

• SonarKotlin
• Codacy
• Gradle plugin that generates ErrorProne, Findbugs, Checkstyle, PMD, CPD, Lint, Detekt & Ktlint Tasks for every subproject
• Java library for parsing report files from static code analysis
• sputnik is a free tool for static code review and provides support for detekt
• Novoda Gradle Static Analysis plugin
• Maven plugin that wraps the Detekt CLI
• Gradle plugin that helps facilitate GitHub PR checking and automatic commenting of violations
• Codefactor

• JetBrains - Creating Intellij + Kotlin
• PMD & Checkstyle & KtLint - Ideas for threshold values and style rules