Release updates archive

Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 Canary 1 now available

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 Canary 1 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Jellyfish, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.4.0-alpha01 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #278800528

Improve error message for why `--release` option can't be used for JavaCompile

Issue #194804421

Disable caching of MergeSourceSetFolders using @DoNotCacheByDefault

Database Inspector

Issue #211670717

Database inspector columns do not support wrapping long lines

Issue #153803735

Database Inspector makes it needlessly hard to find related processes

Import/Sync

Issue #317085185

Using non-AndroidX libraries in an AndroidX project

Layout Inspector

Issue #316777257

Layout Inspector RootsDetector leaking root views

StudioBot

Issue #316844800

Studio Bot unresponsive with empty error

View Binding

Issue #316308496

android project - viewbinding is incorrectly claiming viewbinding class unavailable

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Beta 1 now available

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Beta 1 is now available in the Beta channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Beta 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-beta01 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Import/Sync

Issue #315440596

Potential compatibility issue with Gradle 9 in Iguana because of org.gradle.util.VersionNumber

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #315877832

R8 Flurry SDK crash with AGP 8.2.0

Issue #314984596

Android - R8 causes subclass of LinearLayoutManager to crash

Issue #315186101

R8 v8.2.33, "java.lang.VerifyError: Bad type on operand stack" runtime crash after upgrade

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 18 now available

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 18 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresThis release introduces App development with Gemini Pro using Google AI SDK, a client SDK for Android. See more information here.

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 17 now available

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 17 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 17 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha17 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #214428179

Please provide options to include generated sources on Javadoc and SourceJar

Issue #308175247

Need quick fix for discrepancy between compileSdk and dependency with minCompileSdkVersion

Issue #37045148

[Gradle] tools:overrideLibrary should support asterisk (*)

Issue #309843401

UI Freeze when editing manifest

App Quality Insights

Issue #314372143

The sorting function of the Issues column isn't sorting intuitively

C++ Debugger

Issue #301570463

LLDB Debugger not check apk for required architectures before launching

Code Analysis

Issue #173137950

Lint library version checks don't work with BoM (Bill of Materials)

Code Editor

Issue #301981607

Quick documentation action on a function shows "COMPILED_CODE" for default parameters in Iguana Canary 5

Device Manager

Issue #314840589

Device skins copied to SDK directory

Gradle

Issue #204522137

'InlineApi' instead of 'InlinedApi'

Import/Sync

Issue #243886833

Allow tests for syncing with old versions of AGP to handle new namespace DSL

Issue #286247192

Firebase BOM not updated

Lint

Issue #313937481

Android Studio / Lint doesn't tell you when "platform" dependencies are out of date

Issue #190076622

Bug: no suggestion to update Firebase-bom dependency

Issue #192383335

Project Structure (and Gradle (?)) does not discover Firebase BOM dependencies to be upgraded to a newer version.

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 16 now available

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 16 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 16 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha16 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #310112606

The link for "decoupled Projects" in studio settings goes to the wrong place.

Espresso Recorder

Issue #302221569

Record Your Test window not displayed in Android Studio for "Expresso Test Recorder"

Import/Sync

Issue #297140433

Unclear error/warning after project sync

Network Inspector

Issue #295991498

gRPC support for network inspector

Issue #313689834

gRPC inspector cannot capture from AndroidChannelBuilder

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #311837855

isShrinkResources overoptimizes in 8.3.0-alpha11 to alpha14

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 now available

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 is now available in the Stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Hedgehog, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 15 now available

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 15 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 15 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha15 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #308401803

DexArchiveBuilderTaskDelegate was failed with resource only library module

Issue #260925077

AGP7.4 custom plugin variant toTransform for all throw duplicate entry: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF exception

Issue #309685910

Support new Manifest tags,

Espresso Recorder

Issue #302221569

Record Your Test window not displayed in Android Studio for "Expresso Test Recorder"

Import/Sync

Issue #295146913

UI for "Gradle JDK" does not suggest "Gradle Sync"

Layout Inspector

Issue #311414906

Iguana Canary 13: Layout inspector is spamming logcat with "No package ID ff found for resource ID 0xffffffff."

Network Inspector

Issue #295991498

gRPC support for network inspector

Resources

Issue #311198257

Resource resolution breaks when resource files are moved

Issue #307329983

When extracting string it become error

Running Devices

Issue #311790299

Unable to connect to physical device for development

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 14 now available

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 14 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 14 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha14 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #227511002

SDK Manager should stop spamming log info to stdout

Build Output

Issue #227078905

ksp AutoMigration error is not shown in Android Studio

Gradle

Issue #293206305

NoClassDefFoundError with AGP 8.1.0, desugaring and minify

Lint

Issue #299673844

StackOverflow from `LintClient.getSdkHome`

New Code/Templates

Issue #293665991

TODO: Remove once KTIJ-19369 is fixed

Resource Manager

Issue #310601246

SVG import error, Error while parsing *.svg - Not a proper SVG file

Running Tests

Issue #281557479

Cannot run instrumented test for lib module on Pixel 7 Pro

Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 4 now available

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 4 is now available in the Stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Giraffe, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.1.4 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #310252873

Do not run dexing task on subprojects' classes when they are already dex'd through artifact transforms

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 13 now available

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 13 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 13 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha13 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #297440098

Feature Request: Promote com.android.build.api.extension.impl.CURRENT_AGP_VERSION to a public API

Android SDK Upgrade Assistant

Issue #297422963

No upgrade path to API level 34

Compose Preview

Issue #288965467

IDE becomes very slow in Hedgehog 9 (possibly ComposePreviewRunLineMarkerContributor)

New Code/Templates

Issue #290928444

Adding a New Library Module Dependency Doesn't Compile

Project Structure

Issue #300304005

The supplied javaHome seems to be invalid. I cannot find the java executable

Running Devices

Issue #309486850

device preview has oval shape

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 3 now available

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 3 is now available in the Beta channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Hedgehog, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 3 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0-rc03 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #303737186

HEDGEHOG REGRESSION: Run button is delayed by a few seconds (Creating spec)

Help Menu

Issue #302672972

Logo on the About screen is distorted starting with Iguana Canary 6

Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 3 now available

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 3 is now available in the Stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Giraffe, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 3 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.1.3 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #293547829

[AGP 8.1.0] ./gradlew test fails with "Unable to find manifest output" if both splits.abi.isEnable and testOptions.unitTests.isIncludeAndroidResources are true

Issue #304082728

Build failure after updating to AGP 8.1

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 12 now available

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 12 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 12 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha12 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #295666695

AGP 8.1.0: dynamic feature: Implicit dependency between exportReleaseConsumerProguardFiles and extractProguardFiles cause compilation errors

Issue #306420288

`variant.unitTest.jniLibs.addGeneratedSourceDirectory` does not seem to do anything

Issue #306301014

Update XML parser used in AGP for Gradle 8.4 compatibility

Issue #283015405

AGP 8.0.1 release package jacoco instrument does not take effect

Issue #303737186

HEDGEHOG REGRESSION: Run button is delayed by a few seconds (Creating spec)

Issue #307987906

AGP 8.3.0-alpha11 produces release APK that crashes on startup with android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException

Issue #303926255

Graduate "android.lint.printStackTrace" AGP property to stable

C++ Import/Sync

Issue #199605626

Android studio keeps indexing unrelated c++ code

CPU

Issue #225751096

Android Studio freeze when profiling/recording CPU trace. Last Bumblebee and Dolphin version

Device File Explorer

Issue #303473218

Update App Inspector to use Device Explorer

Lint

Issue #308400860

Unused Resources Processor might delete Gradle build file

Issue #303549797

NewApi lint check does not undertand "isAtleastU() && otherCondition()" final field

Running Tests

Issue #282056713

AS 2022.3.1.13 C3 doesn't allow debugging integration tests when the tested variant is non debuggable

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 2 now available

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 2 is now available in the Beta channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Hedgehog, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0-rc02 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Compose Preview

Issue #262773698

Compose Preview broken when using HTML text with b-Tags

Layout Editor

Issue #257280452

Exception in Layout editor

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 11 now available

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 11 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 11 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha11 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #172671706

Migrate to new Gradle configuration alignment API

Issue #269585156

Resource compilation fails when Kotlin compiler tries to update to IDEA 21.3

Issue #232323922

Reactive get() with artifacts API

Issue #303926255

Graduate "android.lint.printStackTrace" AGP property to stable

API

Issue #307388450

com.android.build.api.dsl.Packaging has no useful javadoc.

Issue #280783683

New Varian API DSL feature request: Equivalent for old API BaseVariant.preBuildProvider

Import/Sync

Issue #291935296

GradleProjectInfo.setSkipStartupActivity is still being used

Issue #241686649

Refresh VFS after project builds

Issue #239682746

Offer quickfix for "Could not install Gradle distribution"

Layout Inspector

Issue #299309384

Iguana Canary 2: Embedded Layout inspector spams logcat with `Invalid resource ID` errors

Lint

Issue #301833844

Invalid highlight of an warning which is false positive

Issue #228961124

Lint visitAnnotationUsage not called for usages of annotated classes in variable declarations

Network Inspector

Issue #306186999

Make Network Inspector Static

Running Devices

Issue #302003079

Pixel fold device streaming broken for API level 34

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 10 now available

Monday, October 23, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 10 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 10 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha10 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Studio Iguana Canary 9 now available

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 9 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 9 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha09 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #303497756

Transforming the ASSETS artifact give broken input/output locations

Issue #303900539

Promote android.experimental.r8.dex-startup-optimization=true to be default

Editing

Issue #305066070

shrinkunusedprotofields is marked as invalid flag in proguard-rules.pro

IntelliJ

Issue #303743141

Iguana: Process 471 is still running

Lint

Issue #300392968

Quickfix Lint doesn't work and results in an IDE error

Issue #188814760

Inconsistent test failure due to partial analysis

Logcat

Issue #305221377

Add a Process Name Column in Logcat

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 now available

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha08 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #303641463

Tranforming an APK leads to a error with ListingFileRedirectTask

Baseline Profiles & ProfileInstaller

Issue #283947063

Desugared classes are missing from the compiled profile

Code Editor

Issue #303127400

Android Studio deadlock (AttachAndroidSdkSourcesNotificationProvider)

Compose Editing

Issue #302614310

Don't implement optional trailing lambdas by default

Compose Preview

Issue #302275561

Change request: prev Live Template should generate a private function

Debugger

Issue #303971655

App Inspection Instructions are Misleading

Import/Sync

Issue #298395223

AndroidGradleProjectResolver.isAndroidGradleProject takes significant time

Live Edit

Issue #296250263

10-30 second freezes caused by Live Edit

Profilers

Issue #283462661

Profiler becomes unusably slow after just 3-4 runs, have to restart IDE

Resource Manager

Issue #286928893

Bug: importing SVG file puts it in wrong folder, of "drawable-svg" instead of "drawable", causing "Android resource linking failed" error

Testing

Issue #255784701

Macrobenchmark test results show same timing info for all tests using Run -> Import Tests From File

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 1 now available

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 1 is now available in the Beta channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Hedgehog, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0-rc01 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #296250245

Android Studio Giraffe does not respect versionCodeOverride with AGP 8.1

Issue #295039976

AGP 8.1.0 uninstalls app after running instrumented tests - 7.4.2 does not

Issue #303641463

Tranforming an APK leads to a error with ListingFileRedirectTask

C++ Build

Issue #299956670

[Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 Beta 4] android.injected.build.abi' gradle flag contained 'armeabi' which is invalid.

Running Devices

Issue #299884601

Device mirroring causing extremely high CPU usage on phone

Third Party Plugins

Issue #266333624

Lombok plugin support

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 7 now available

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 7 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 7 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha07 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #295039976

AGP 8.1.0 uninstalls app after running instrumented tests - 7.4.2 does not

Layout Editor

Issue #300719286

androidx.core:core-ktx:1.12.0 causes Render Problem in Android Studio

Navigation Editor

Issue #293665984

Problem to Define Args in Navigation

Profilers

Issue #286199266

Save (or copy) traces recorded by Macrobenchmark library

Rendering

Issue #295049594

Android Studio Hedgehog 2023.1.1 Canary 15 hangs when typing drawable resource name.

Resources

Issue #268536237

String Extract generates getString() instead of stringResource() in Electric Eel

Run

Issue #301311826

Minimum port 5038 for 'user managed adb' prevents use of the default port 5037 which may be desired

Tip of the Day

Issue #302571384

Suppress tip-of-the-day in Android Studio

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 6 now available

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 6 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 6 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha06 These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #225900051

Enforce `android.enableDexingArtifactTransform=true`

Issue #298011938

[Gradle 8.4][upgrade] Integration test failure after upgrade due to file handling in configuration phase

Issue #299602350

AGP 8.3.0-alpha-02 - `Error: Failed to deserialize cached resource repository.`

Issue #298012643

[Gradle 8.4][upgrade] Integration test failure after upgrade due file handling in configuration phase of TestLabBuildService

Code Editor

Issue #301246673

Editor for ProGuard rules warns about missing class for -dontwarn

Compose Editing

Issue #301481575

Don't put `@Composable` on extract constants

Emulator

Issue #288717403

Bluetooth Exceptions when using Android Emulator 33.1.13

Import/Sync

Issue #301481563

Sources for AndroidX KMP libraries are not downloaded in Studio I Canary 5

Lint

Issue #266116266

No Lint warning about kotlin.text.MatchNamedGroupCollection#get(String) requiring API 26

Issue #293397291

lint:TypographyQuotes false negatives: more than one escaped apostrophe are ignored

Issue #291130217

AGP 8.0.2 lint InvalidId detector false positive

Issue #297095583

LintError issues added to lint baselines

Resources

Issue #179166707

Remove unused STRING resources

Android Studio Giraffe Patch 2 is now available

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Android Studio - Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 2 is now available in the stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.

Fixed Issues

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #294771624

androidResources is not available in the android library module

Issue #293547829

[AGP 8.1.0] ./gradlew test fails with "Unable to find manifest output" if both splits.abi.isEnable and testOptions.unitTests.isIncludeAndroidResources are true

Database Inspector

Issue #294904657

Android Studio 2022.3.1 Giraffe is missing database inspector

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #295576241

Kotlin 1.9 causes Kotlin lambdas to be destroyed by R8 if nullchecks are stripped

Issue #296654327

R8 fails with "Undefined value encountered during compilation" for play-services-measurement-21.3.0-runtime.jar

Android Studio Iguana Canary 5 now available

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 5 is now available in the Canary channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Iguana, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Iguana Canary 5 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha05. These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.