Ginger is a toolkit to detect and correct some code smells in analysed Android applications.

• Code smells detection
• How to use it?
• Troubleshootings?

Ginger supports currently 5 Android code smells.

• Member Ignoring Method (MIM),
• No Low Memory Resolver (NLMR),
• Leaking Inner Class (LIC),
• Heavy AsyncTask (HAS),
• Heavy Broadcast Receiver (HBR),

You can choose between three modes: detect , correct and detect&correct . The detect mode will allow you to scan your application with Spoon, then detect contained code smells. After that, you can use the correct mode to correct code smells detected or suggest some recommendation instructions to correct them. Or detect&correct mode that combine the two previous modes.

Note that Ginger use Neo4j to save the application analysed but you don't need to install Neo4J on your side since it's embedded into Ginger (however it can be useful if you want to visualize the database, use the Neo4J Desktop Application).

#### Detect mode usage



usage: Ginger [-h] detect  -f folder -c codeSmell 

positional arguments:
  -f folder                  Path of the code source folder /src
  -c codeSmell               Code smell to detect MIM,LIC,NLMR,HBR,HAS or ALL to detect all code smells 

#### Correct mode usage


usage: Ginger [-h] correct   -c codeSmell 

positional arguments:
  -c codeSmell               Code smell to detect MIM,LIC,NLMR,HBR,HAS or ALL to detect all code smells 

#### Detect&Correct mode usage


usage: Ginger [-h] detect&correct  -f folder  -c codeSmell 

positional arguments:
  -f folder                  Path of the code source folder /src
  -c codeSmell               Code smell to detect MIM,LIC,NLMR,HBR,HAS or ALL to detect all code smells 

First we launch the detection mode to detect potential code smells present in the android application :

java  -jar  Ginger.jar detect -f "/path/to/application/src" -c "MIM" 

Then you can launch the correction using correct mode, for example :

java  -jar  Ginger.jar correct -c "MIM" 

OR you can directly launch the detection and the correction at once using detect&correct mode, for example :

java -jar  Ginger.jar detect&correct -f "/path/to/application/src" -c "ALL" 

Ginger is still in development.
Found a bug? We'd love to know about it!
Please report all issues on the github issue tracker.