Android Studio 3.5 Canary 7 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 fixes for the following public issues:
- Issue #116699306: Illegal character '-' in module name
- Issue #121288180: The databinding annotation processor is injecting an absolute path into KotlinCompile (and maybe AndroidJavaCompile?), which defauts Gradle's remote build cache
- Issue #67575899: Impossible to specify more than 255 file extensions for aaptOptions noCompress
- Issue #123423125: AAPT2 crashes if plurals in xml contain an apostrophe
- Issue #120898718: SVG with subpaths beginning with 'm' commands fails to convert properly
- Issue #119517432: Exception on BR class completion from Java
- Issue #119876558: Data binding, layout, TextView android:text, expression language, common feature, comparison lesser than '<' produces error message.
- Issue #124763193: Refactoring method name doesn't work
- Issue #122698932: Layout preview rerenders too often when typing in the XML editor
- Issue #126165767: DDMLIB process uses a full CPU core even when no device / emulator is connected
- Issue #112456379: Kotlin main classes appear on the class path before test classes when running unit tests
- Issue #125432826: ConstraintLayout complains about
missing constraints - Issue #123377224: Run/Debug Configuration dialog's Deployment Target Options drop-down combo box always resets to "Use the device/snapshot drop down" option
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