Android Studio 3.3 Canary 12 available

Android Studio 3.3 Canary 12 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:

• CMake version 3.10.2: CMake version 3.10.2 is now included with SDK Manager. Note that Gradle still uses version 3.6.0 by default. To specify a CMake version for Gradle to use, add the following to your main module’s build.gradle file:

  android {
      ...
      externalNativeBuild {
          cmake {
              ...
              version "3.10.2"
          }
      }
  }
  

• Delete Unused Directories Dialog: When a new major version of Android Studio is run for the first time, it looks for directories containing caches, settings, indices, and logs that are associated with old versions of Android Studio for which a corresponding installation can’t be found. When found, a dialog displays their locations, sizes, and last-modified times and provides the option to delete them.

This update includes fixes for several bugs, including the following:

• Some deprecated kotlin-stdlib-jre* artifacts were still being used when creating new projects.
• AAPT2 was crashing when project folders were on a different drive than the build folder.

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.