Android Studio 3.5 Canary 2 available

Android Studio 3.5 Canary 2 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 macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.

This update includes the following enhancements:

• Apply Changes is now compatible with x86_64 emulator images.

General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:

• Issue #122718199: CharSequences#startsWith throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
• Issue #122301106: Memory leak in ProcessProfileWriterFactory
• Issue #116700688: AAPT2 Strips Leading Zeros from Strings in XML Files
• Issue #117889706: Stop depending on ValidateSigningTask manually
• Issue #111411525: Data binding errors aren't displayed in build pane
• Issue #68902782: Resource Ids are not updating during a Rename refactoring
• Issue #118469827: CPU Recording: Unable to parse capture: java.lang.NullPointerException
• Issue #116536168: TextWatcher Not Always Generated for Binding Expressions Referencing EditText Widgets
• Issue #122553653: Change Propagation using BaseObservable not working after setLifecycleOwner
• Issue #122066788: NullpointerException in android.databinding.ViewDataBinding
• Issue #119960651: Databinding does not work with a Kotlin ViewModel and an interface with type parameter
• Issue #116821433: Databinding and generics, incompatible types error
• Issue #62685775: Data Binding build error is vague
• Issue #120853927: Windows: seems like aapt2 still has issues with path > 260 characters.

Known issues

This update includes the following known issues:

• Only a single destination destination can be created through the add destination menu without closing and reopening the tab. We expect this to be resolved in the next 3.5 Canary release.
• In ConstraintLayout, widgets constraints will not be able to auto-connect in both layout design view and preview.

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 3.5, 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.