Android Studio tip — Exclude unwanted imports

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The auto-import functionality of Android Studio is often cluttered, presenting the user with imports for deprecated classes. For example, even though junit.framework.Assert is deprecated, the IDE still provides it as a choice when auto-importing and auto-completing on assertEquals:

Auto-import on assertEquals showing deprecated junit.framework.Assert

Auto-complete on assertEquals showing deprecated junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals

Fortunately, there’s something simple you can do to exclude certain imports.

With auto-import, navigate with the right-arrow key to display exclusion options:

Press right-arrow to show exclusion options from auto-import

With auto-complete, press Option ⌥ + Return on a Mac to display the same exclusion options:

Press Option ⌥ + Return to show exclusion options from auto-complete

Selecting any of the items in these exclusion menus presents the below dialog with your chosen…