A simple bash script to see how your projects Synthetics usage has changed over time

trackSynthetics.sh

#! /bin/bash

# To use:
# Copy this file to the root of your Android Project
# chmod +x trackSynthetics.sh
# ./trackSynthetics.sh | tee results.csv
# Open CSV file in your choice of spreadsheet software

start=2022-02-23 # Date to start tracking
end=2022-08-19 # Date to end tracking
branch="develop"

echo "date,count"
while ! [[ $start > $end ]]; do

    # MacOS use brew install coreutils to get gdate
    # Linux replace gdate with date
    start=$(gdate -d "$start + 1 day" +%F)

    git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --before="$start 00:00" $branch` > /dev/null 2>&1

    count=$(grep -lr "kotlinx.android.synthetic" --include \*.kt * | grep src | wc -l | xargs)

    echo "$start,$count"

done