Android Studio 3.3 Canary 3 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you have Android Studio set to receive updates on the Canary or Dev channel, you can get the update by choosing Help > Check for Updates (Android Studio > Check for Updates on Mac). Otherwise, you can download it here.

This update includes the following change in behavior:
  • Gradle compatibility: Android Gradle Plugin 3.3.0-alpha3 and higher now requires Gradle 4.9 RC1 or higher.


This update includes fixes for several bugs, including the following:
  • Users were unable to open some trace files.
  • In some cases, users were unable to generate a signed APK.
  • Android Studio was not properly parsing the project Android SDK version even when specified in build.gradle.
  • Layout Inspector bounds indicators were incorrect.
  • Logcat printed all logs, even when filtering was enabled.


For information on new features and changes in previous releases of Android Studio, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.

We greatly appreciate your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. Note that you can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that you are also affected by it.