Android Studio 3.5 Canary 8 available

Android Studio 3.5 Canary 8 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.

General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
APK Viewer

• Issue #78248278: Display version number on Analyze APK screen

Build

• Issue #123895238: Execution failed for task ':app:generateJsonModelDebug' Format specifier '%s'

Core IDE

• Issue #123216329: [Studio 3.4 beta 3] Alternative resources are not renamed
• Issue #123213449: PsiResourceItem name is not updated when file name changes

Data Binding

• Issue #124763193: Refactoring method name doesn't work
• Issue #126379508: BR can't be found without fully qualified name
• Issue #123773749: Data binding expression highlighting doesn't work when set to custom attributes
• Issue #120277395: AndroidX compilation failure: "cannot generate view binders: Stream closed"

Debugger

• Issue #124121862: Unable to set breakpoints / step through code

Gradle

• Issue #124208289: Android Studio includes all densities and ABIs when deploying to a device
• Issue #123303852: BuildConfig.APPLICATION_IS is confusing in library module
• Issue #124235144: Reading META-INF/proguard files that are not inside .aars or .jars
• Issue #117869443: Disallow manual split="foo" in dynamic feature manifests

Gradle Sync

• Issue #127647973: Project does not work correctly after removing the gradle cache
• Issue #127776612: Cached sync does not complete with failure if crashes

Layout Editor

• Issue #128284728: [PropertyPanel] Typing a value moves the caret randomly and throw a out of bound exception

Lint

• Issue #124274575: @CallSuper in Java8 Interface with default implementation for method issue

Navigation Editor

• Issue #124356535: NPE in NavigationSchema

New Project Wizard

• Issue #127210786: Incorrect mParentActivity Type via Master/Detail Activity Wizard
• Issue #123128650: New Module Wizard Should Offer Kotlin Support

Profilers

• Issue #125166472: Cannot open trace files generated with Debug.startMethodTracing in Android Studio

Run Debug

• Issue #77842190: UI freezes when running Wear project on a watch

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.

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