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Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 7 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev 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 Electric Eel, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Electric Eel Canary 7. 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #233102273: No ability to add "STORED" zip entries to apk after AGP introduced zipflinger in 4.1.0
Compose
  • Issue #236141674: Compose Previews in app modules fail to find resources in multi-module projects

Lint
Resources
  • Issue #236727034: EEL Canary 5 - custom views unable to instantiate and display in xml editor
Testing

Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 6 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev 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 Electric Eel, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Electric Eel Canary 6. 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #233511980: Wrong file name in output file for transforming SingleArtifact.AAR
  • Issue #234820480: JdkImageInput should be less sensitive to inconsequential changes
  • Issue #179285976: Dynamic feature conflicts with `android.uniquePackageNames`
Lint
  • Issue #233912817: Lint UnusedIds incorrectly fails when using ViewBinding as suggested by official docs

Android Studio - Dolphin | 2021.3.1 Beta 4 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 Dolphin, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Dolphin Beta 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.

ART
  • Issue #231903117: [R8 3.3.40] dex2oat speed-profile invocation appears to hang on Android 8 device
Android Gradle Plugin
Import/Sync
Logcat
Updater
  • Issue #234613774: IncompatibleClassChangeError with R8 - 3.3.28 (Android API < 25)
  • Issue #232379893: Gradle 7.2.0 causing APK build error com.android.tools.r8.CompilationFailedException

Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 5 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev 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 Electric Eel, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Electric Eel Canary 5. 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #234730810: Gradle version check inside of AGP can be expensive
  • Issue #194113162: Android Gradle plugin should use Gradle toolchain configured via extension for Java compilation tasks
  • Issue #234629577: AGP 7.2 com.android.test module unable to access com.android.app module's test fixture classes
  • Issue #234865137: Lint crashing in Kotlin 1.7.0-RC2 build
Import/Sync
  • Issue #234353685: Build problem with multiple product flavours in new version
  • Issue #228529018: ProjectStructureDumper does not record exported dependency flag

Android Studio - Dolphin | 2021.3.1 Beta 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 Dolphin, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Dolphin Beta 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #231326529: processReleaseManifest: package found in source AndroidManifest.xml false negative
  • Issue #229979216: Make dokka-core as compile time dependency and load it at runtime
  • Issue #231326529: AGP 7.2.0-rc01 :buildSrc:generatePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors - shadow/bundletool/com/android/prefs/AndroidLocation$AndroidLocationException
Compose Preview
  • Issue #231326529: ComposePreviewRepresentations leak through message bus connections in FastPreviewManager
Updater

Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 4 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev 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 Electric Eel, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Electric Eel Canary 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #197664261: AGP 7.x test listener fails on MacOS since 7.0.0-beta04 (inclusive)
  • Issue #233948259: Remove usage of kotlin reflect in cxx code
  • Issue #229854531: Use target 11 when compiling AGP
  • Issue #231037948: AGP 7.2.0-rc01 :buildSrc:generatePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors - shadow/bundletool/com/android/prefs/AndroidLocation$AndroidLocationException
App Development
Code Analysis
Compose Preview
  • Issue #233673271: ComposePreviewRepresentations leak through message bus connections in FastPreviewManager
Design Tools
Device Manager
Dexer (D8)
First Launch
Import/Sync
IntelliJ
Lint
  • Issue #122847354: ObsoleteSdkInt doesn't catch Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= minSdkVersion
  • Issue #232652234: SystemPermissionTypo false positive on android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
  • Issue #174940625: Migrate AndroidProjectTaskRunner to non-deprecated APis
Logcat
Release Bundle/APKs
  • Issue #232006839: Tasks invocation from Gradle tool window does not go through Android Studio infra unless at the top level
Resource Manager
  • Issue #191729673: Request: offer \"convert to webp\" for folder's context menu, and not just to files
  • Issue #169796111: Android Studio 4.1 RC3 doesn't retain position in Resource Manager when deleting resources
  • Issue #149361718: Resource Manager can't search the value of strings
  • Issue #149891161: Bug: Android Studio forgets how to view resources list as a grid
  • Issue #37139097: Android Asset Studio prefixes files with ic_
  • Issue #37131929: Vector asset studio needs button tooltip
  • Issue #159434431: Image Asset doesn't show resource directory sorted by asc
  • Issue #158718692: When adding an asset image, the flavor list is in random order.
  • Issue #194829066: Draw 9 Patch tool should be able to zoom out to below 100%
  • Issue #37121811: Help button for Save As .9.png dialog
  • Issue #152711970: Request: allow finding items in combobox by pressing on letters on the keyboard
  • Issue #170406189: While creating new app icon and have shared resource folder for multiple flavors the location of the importing icon cannot be changed
  • Issue #234117968: New Vector Asset Dialog label cut off
  • Issue #184935348: Asset Studio generates white background for images even when shape set to 'none'
  • Issue #185228753: batch import drawables ignores locale and region
  • Issue #152388071: Resource Manager: Keeps defaulting to another module besides my app module
Translations Editor
  • Issue #117685004: Translations Editor should write new entries at the correct position in the files

Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 3 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev 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 Electric Eel, 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 features

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Electric Eel Canary 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.

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #231326529: processReleaseManifest: package found in source AndroidManifest.xml false negative
  • Issue #232933744: Remove check that forbids usages of distributionSha256Sum in wrapper properties file
  • Issue #232438924: AndroidGradlePlugin version 7.2 breaks transform API when used along with ASM API
Assistant Window
  • Issue #228992702: URL Assistant: The default implementation of method 'getFile' is deprecated, you need to override it
Emulator
  • Issue #232962073: AS Electric Eel Canary 2 - Error hitting "Finish" on device connection assistant does nothing
Import/Sync
Lint
  • Issue #232652234: SystemPermissionTypo false positive on android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
Logcat
  • Issue #229642755: AS 2021.3.1 Canary 8 new logcat unable to copy text, missing option to search selected text in Google
  • Issue #232890405: New logcat not showing logs after the first 2 seconds
Release Bundle/APKs
  • Issue #232006839: Tasks invocation from Gradle tool window does not go through Android Studio infra unless at the top level
Resources
  • Issue #232276714: NPE in AarResourceRepositoryCache.createCachingData (AS Electric Eel)
Run
  • Issue #232134751: Devices option is not visible and unable to run the app even though app module is available.
Updater
Upgrade Assistant
  • Issue #213019734: "Cannot find AGP version in build files". What does that mean? And HOW can someone fix it?