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Android Studio 3.2 Canary 13 available

Monday, April 30, 2018

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.1

Export CPU traces

Import and inspect CPU trace files

Record CPU activity using the Debug API

Lint checking

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Emulator 27.2.7 Canary

Friday, April 27, 2018

Emulator 27.2.7 is now available in the Canary channel. It contains the following changes:

Fixed issues with some parts of the emulator UI being unresponsive if the Extended controls window was not opened at least once.

To address concerns of excessive memory usage, loading and saving of AVD snapshots has been optimized to only use RAM that is currently in the guest working set. This applies to Quick Boot snapshots saved automatically and to snapshots saved and loaded using the Save now and Load now buttons in the Settings panel of the Extended controls window.

On Windows with HAXM 7.2.0, AVD snapshot loads are optimized to load memory on demand, greatly decreasing snapshot load times. (HAXM 7.2.0 is not yet publicly released.)

Improved performance with Skia: For Android 8.1 (API 27) and Android P images, Android Emulator can render the Android UI with Skia. With Skia, UI rendering is smoother and uses fewer resources.

Currently, to use Skia, you need to manually enable it with the following commands in an adb shell:

su
setprop debug.hwui.renderer skiagl
stop
start

In upcoming Android P images and later, Skia will become the default renderer. Skia uses more OpenGL features than the current solution, so it’s important for us to get thorough test coverage across real-world scenarios. We would like to get feedback on this change as early as possible. Please file an issue if you experience problems with it.

Android Studio 3.2 Canary 12 now available

Monday, April 23, 2018

Native multidex enabled by default

AAPT2 moved to Google's Maven repository

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Android Studio 3.1.2 bug-fix update now available

Monday, April 23, 2018

Android Studio 3.1.2 bug-fix updateAndroid Studio 3.1.2 release notesHelp > Check for updatesAndroid Studio > Check for updatesdownload it here

Emulator 27.2.6 Canary

Friday, April 20, 2018

Emulator 27.2.6 is now available in the Canary channel. It includes the new ability to import scene images:
When using the emulator with a camera app, you can import an image in PNG or JPEG format to be used within a virtual scene. To choose an image for use in a virtual scene, click Add image in the Camera -> Virtual scene images tab in the Extended controls dialog. This feature can be used to import custom images such as QR codes for use with any camera-based app.

Android Studio 3.2 Canary 11 now available

Monday, April 16, 2018

Record a method trace during app startup

You can now record a method during app startup. Enable the feature by selecting Run > Edit Configurations from the main menu and, under the Profile tab of your desired run configuration, checking the box next to Start recording a method trace on startup. After that, simply deploy your app to a device running Android 8.0 or higher by selecting Run > Profile.

Lint checks to ensure Java code interops well with Kotlin (available since Canary 10)

To make sure your Java code interoperates well with your Kotlin code, new Lint checks enforce the best practices
described in the Kotlin Interop Guide. This includes checking for the presence of Nullability annotations, use of
Kotlin hard keywords, placing lambda parameters last, and others.

To enable these checks, go to File > Preferences > Editor > Inspections and check the rules that you want to enable under Kotlin Interoperability:

Once you have checked the rules you would like to enable, the new checks will run when you run your code inspections (Analyze > Inspect Code…)

To enable these checks from the command-line builds, add the following line in your build.gradle file:

android {
   lintOptions {
       check 'Interoperability'
   }
}

General bug fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:

Issue#77240636: Solid black-filled areas are missing in a vector drawable imported from SVG
Issue#77303892: Losing alpha channel in Image Asset Studio on Windows with Russian Locale.
Issue#77522540: Deprecation for 'compile' points people to 'implementation'
Issue#68977385: Lambda causes crash in specific situation
Issue#72637989: Build does not run with instant run enabled on AS 3.1 Beta 1
Issue#74961584: Studio disables sdcard whenever data partition is resized
Issue#74493350: Apply fix to multiple files by one operation
Issue#37075533: Lint check to avoid compiler-generated synthetic accessor methods & constructors.
Issue#76404689: Advanced profiling causes device to crash with StackOverflowError
Issue#72872264: Studio Freeze (ANR)
Issue#76456341: Multiline log messages should be indented consistently between the Logcat and Run windows
Issue#73048570: Translations Editor - deleting keys does not update list.

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 Mac). Otherwise, you can download here.

Emulator 27.2.5 Canary

Friday, April 13, 2018

Fixed a crash in Swiftshader when saving snapshots while video is playing.

Fixed concurrency issues when using Swiftshader for multi-threaded rendering.

Fixed a crash in Swiftshader when drawing with no program bound.

Fixed use-after-free / concurrency issues in screen recording.

Fixed "Recorder not initialized" error when issuing screen recording commands from the telnet console.

Fixed an issue where resizing the data partition through Android Studio did not work. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/75259650

Snapshot save operations have been further optimized to consume less RAM. This should reduce the time to save snapshots in memory-constrained situations.

Snapshot load operations on Mac and Linux have been optimized to reduce latency shortly after snapshot load.

ConstraintLayout 1.1.0

Thursday, April 12, 2018

dependencies { implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.0'}https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/constraint/ConstraintLayout.html

Android Studio 3.2 Canary 10 now available

Monday, April 9, 2018

Profiler SessionsRun > ProfileSystem TraceCPU profilerSystem TracesystraceTrace
Navigate External Header Files
When using the Project window in previous versions of Android Studio, you could navigate to and inspect only the header files that belong to libraries you build locally. With this release, you can now also view and inspect header files included with external C/C++ library dependencies that you import into your app.

If you already include C/C++ code and libraries in your project, open the Project window on the left side of the IDE (click View > Tool Windows > Project) and make sure you select Android from the drop-down menu. In your project’s cpp/ directory, all headers that are within the scope of your app are organized under the include node for each of your local C/C++ library projects, as shown below.

General bug fixes:

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:

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 Mac). Otherwise, you can download here.

Emulator 27.2.4 canary

Friday, April 6, 2018

Fixed an issue that caused the rotate buttons to not work unless the Extended controls window was open. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77258337

Some changes have been made to improve the speed of saving an AVD snapshot. If you still experience unusually long saves, please file an issue in Issuetracker, providing details of your CPU, RAM, and settings of any antivirus / firewall / security software that is running.

Avast Issues

Android Studio 3.2 Canary 9 now available

Monday, April 2, 2018

Android Studio 3.2 Canary 9 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.
Data Binding V2:
General bug fixes:

Issue#37133944: An empty path string should not be created when importing a vector drawable from SVG

Issue#74428305: Android P AVD Has "Android null (Google APIs)" as Target

Issue#73493534: Built-in shrinker Proguard rules parser

Issue#73957018: Stop min sdk support from manifest when building via gradle

Issue#74240422: APK Analyzer warning opening R8 generated mapping file

Issue#74278841: Jar resources are stripped and cannot be retained

Issue#74388337: False positive "SharedPreferences.edit() without a corresponding commit() or apply() call"

Issue#74469014: Non-ASCII characters are not handled well in the profiler

Issue#72798630: Unable to find module with Gradle path

Issue#73864693: LayoutInspector throws java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 610

Issue#71817695: Adding "year" to logcat time output

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