IntelliJ (Android Studio) has a whole different build system to eclipse. It has incremental compiling that is different.
IntelliJ will tell you if something has an error / warning the the CURRENT open file.
So short answer no you can’t. You will see the errors as you open the files, you can select “rebuild project” from the menu which will show you these errors. You can also enable “auto-import” for Gradle that may help.
You don’t want to be doing ‘rebuild project’ all the time. So I’d recommend getting used to it.
Also you shouldn’t rely on compile errors for coding, you should safely refactor and it should be a surprise when something pop’s up a compile warning and you have to fix it.
You should read the IntelliJ FAQ
Q: What happened to incremental compilation? How do I compile my
project?A: It’s there, but works slightly other way. By default
IntelliJ IDEA compiles files only when it’s needed (when you run your
app or explicily invoke the Make action), and so saves system
resources for other tasks that can be more important at the moment.
The compilation is incremental: IntelliJ IDEA keeps track of
dependencies between source files and recompiles only if a file has
been changed.Files with compilation errors are highlighted, and so are the folders
containing them — so you can easily analyze them via Project view. To
see a list of all files with compilation errors, select Scope |
Problems from the View As combobox of the Project view. After each
compilation, IntelliJ IDEA constantly performs background code
analysis on files with errors, and removes the red highlighting
automatically when you’ve fixed them.To enable compiling files on every save, you can use the EclipseMode
plugin: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?id=3822 (third-party
development, not bundled).To be able to run code with errors, you can select the Eclipse
compiler in Settings dialog, Compiler, Java Compiler and add the
-proceedOnError option to the Additional command line parameters for the compiler.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/migration_faq.html