Android Studio 3.3 Canary 10 available

Android Studio 3.3 Canary 10 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 new features and changes in behavior:

• The Android Gradle plugin now requires Gradle 4.10 or higher.
• Improved classpath dependency synchronization: When resolving dependencies on your runtime and compile time classpaths, the Android Gradle plugin attempts to fix certain downstream version conflicts for dependencies that appear across multiple classpaths.
• Lazy task configuration: The Android Gradle plugin now uses a new task configuration API, which avoids the cost of creating and configuring tasks during Gradle’s configuration phase when those tasks are not going to be executed. This lets the plugin do less work when building just one of many variants in each module.
• New projects now contain the /.idea/caches path in .gitignore.

This update includes fixes for several bugs, including multiple linter fixes.

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.

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