diff --git a/android/java/app/build.gradle b/android/java/app/build.gradle
index 2677f9088..00c5c3f62 100644
--- a/android/java/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android/java/app/build.gradle
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ buildscript {
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
+apply plugin: 'checkstyle'
 
 task accessToken {
     def rawDir = new File("app/src/main/res/raw")
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ android {
     lintOptions {
         checkAllWarnings true
         disable 'UnusedAttribute'
+        abortOnError false
         //disable 'IconDensities'
     }
 
@@ -67,9 +69,27 @@ android {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    compile project(':lib')
+    compile(project(':lib')) {
+        transitive = true
+    }
     compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:21.0.0'
     compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.3'
     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'
     compile 'com.mapzen.android:lost:0.2'
 }
+
+checkstyle {
+    configFile project.file('../checks.xml')
+    showViolations true
+}
+
+android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
+    def name = variant.buildType.name
+    def checkstyle = project.tasks.create "checkstyle${name.capitalize()}", Checkstyle
+    checkstyle.dependsOn variant.javaCompile
+    checkstyle.source variant.javaCompile.source
+    checkstyle.classpath = project.fileTree(variant.javaCompile.destinationDir)
+    checkstyle.exclude('**/BuildConfig.java')
+    checkstyle.exclude('**/R.java')
+    project.tasks.getByName("check").dependsOn checkstyle
+}
diff --git a/android/java/checks.xml b/android/java/checks.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ee271678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/java/checks.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+
+    - some best practices
+
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <!-- <module name="JavadocPackage"/> -->
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <!-- <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/> -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength">
+        <property name="max" value="2500"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+        <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+        <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+        <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+        <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+    <!-- <module name="Header"> -->
+    <!--   <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/> -->
+    <!--   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/> -->
+    <!-- </module> -->
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <!--
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+        -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <!--
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+        -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/>
+        <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="LineLength"/> -->
+        <module name="MethodLength">
+            <property name="max" value="200"/>
+        </module>
+        <!-- <module name="ParameterNumber"/> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <!--<module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>-->
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <!-- <module name="RedundantModifier"/> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/> -->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <!--<module name="HiddenField"/>-->
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <!-- <module name="InnerAssignment"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="MagicNumber"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="RedundantThrows"/> -->
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="DesignForExtension"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="FinalClass"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="InterfaceIsType"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="VisibilityModifier"/> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <!-- <module name="FinalParameters"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="TodoComment"/> -->
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+
+</module>