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Android Studio 3.3 Beta 2 is available

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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Emulator 28.0.14 Canary, 32-bit Windows deprecation

Friday, October 26, 2018

Changes and fixes:

Fixed issue on Mac where timers would become unreliable, leading to hangs and other strange behavior. If you experience emulator hangs on Mac, please file an issue in Issuetracker.

Fixed issue where the virtual Android display would only show up in the top left corner. We believe this is due to misconfigured Qt environment variables.

The emulator now overrides all Qt scaling-related environment variables.

Fixed crashes on snapshot save.

On Linux, btrfs filesystems may cause extreme slowdowns due to auto-snapshot-saving mechanisms and the emulator already employing copy-on-write for its virtual disk devices. For users on btrfs or other copy-on-write filesystems, we recommend cleaning out the ~/.android/avd directory and running chattr +C on an empty ~/.android/avd.

In 28.0.14, new snapshots will be created in a folder where copy-on-write is disabled.

To address issues with running out of disk space on Play Store images, the emulator will automatically resize the userdata partition to 6 GB when running with a fresh Play Store AVD.

32-bit Windows deprecationIssuetracker

Android Studio 3.4 Canary 2 available

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

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The addition of the File > Re-Import Gradle Project command.

Manifest Merger did not support including '+', '-', and '.' in schemes.

The Event Log window was not consistently representing the status of the Scroll to the end button.

Android Support plugin was causing Android Studio to crash.

Gradle could not find the symbol for data binding.

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Android Studio 3.4 Canary 1 available

Friday, October 19, 2018

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The Multiline Text widget is now assigned a default gravity of top | start.

The Project window was occasionally crashing when sorting files by type.

CMake was throwing a NullPointerException when enabling Only sync the active variant (for current project) experimental feature.

Connection Assistant was showing duplicate USB devices.

Attempting to remove a project module was causing Android Studio to crash without removing the module.

Select Deployment Target dialog wasn't displaying USB devices before finishing a scan for virtual devices.

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Android Studio 3.3 Beta 1 available

Friday, October 19, 2018

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CPU Profiler - New live allocation memory tracking options

To improve app performance while profiling, you can now choose a mode for live memory allocation tracking on devices running API level 26 or higher. Choose from Full (all object memory allocations), Sampled (periodic sampling of allocations), or None.

The Project window was occasionally crashing when sorting files by type.

CMake was throwing a NullPointerException when enabling Only sync the active variant (for current project) experimental feature.

D8 was incorrectly failing to compile with the following error message:

com.android.tools.r8.errors.Unreachable: Unexpected type adjustment from java.lang.Object to com.android.transport.model.entity.ApproveDelegator[]

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Emulator 28.0.13 Canary

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Fixed issue preventing emulator from launching on macOS 10.11.

Fixed emulator slowness and hangs on Linux systems with spinning hard disks (HDDs).

Fixed an out-of-bounds memory access that could occur for OpenGL ES vertex array pointers.

HAXM 7.3.2, Emulator 28.0.12 Canary

Friday, October 12, 2018

HAXM 7.3.2

Fixed random crashes of guest OSes that use a recent Linux kernel (>= 4.6), e.g. Ubuntu 18.04 (#39, #74).

Fixed an x86 instruction emulator bug that could lead to a host crash (#93).

Reduced the size of the HAXM installer for Windows.

Emulator 28.0.12 Canary

Fixed an issue where ADB connections could become corrupt on snapshot load.

Fixed issue where, on Windows, the emulator clock would not be in the correct timezone.

Device speed can now be set on the Location page.

When playing back a GPX or KML file, the speed is set automatically, and is set to zero when the playback ends.

Previously we required that the altitude be between -1,000 and +10,000 meters. This restriction is now removed.

Android Studio 3.2.1 bug-fix update available

Thursday, October 11, 2018

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Emulator 28.0.11 to Canary

Friday, October 5, 2018

Fixed an issue where closing the emulator would disable the UI, but not actually close the emulator.

Fixed concurrency issues in OpenGL / launching render threads, which could result in double frees or corrupted data.

Fixed issue where the emulator window would have an afterimage or teleport offscreen when resuming a snapshot where the device orientation was different from the AVD's default orientation.

Fixed an issue that reappeared in macOS 10.14 in which using Bluetooth headsets with the emulator would degrade audio globally. The Mac emulator will now completely avoid using Bluetooth audio. Issue link: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37070892

Android Studio 3.3 Canary 13 available

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

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You can now enable full mode in R8, which provides more aggressive code shrinking than the current default behavior. To enable full mode, add the following to gradle.properties:

android.enableR8.fullMode=true

META-INF/proguard/* paths are now excluded from APKs/AABs.

The Android Gradle plugin now uses SDK Build Tools version 28.0.3 by default.

Better debug info for obsolete API: When the Android Gradle plugin warns you that you're using API that's no longer supported, it can now provide more detailed information to help you determine where that API is being used. To see the additional info, you need to include the following in your project's gradle.properties file:

android.debug.obsoleteApi=true

You can also enable the flag by passing -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true from the command line.

Android Gradle plugin can once again run an androidMockableJar task.

PrepareLintJar.getLintChecks() is now properly tagged with @Classpath

Android Studio wasn't properly displaying previews for adaptive icons.

Translation Editor was displaying columns incorrectly.

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