Android Studio 3.6 Canary 1 available

Android Studio 3.6 Canary 1 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:

Android Studio UI

• Issue #129264179: Cannot run tests from included builds from IDE

APK Viewer

• Issue #127956589: APK Analyzer returns "?" instead of valid version name after upgrade to 3.3.2

App Development

• Issue #37075681: screenshot2 Tool NullPointerException on Linux

AVD Manager

• Issue #116873929: CPU/ABI column in AVD Manager truncates text longer than 3 characters (x86-64) and is not resizable

Build

• Issue #131271062: Gradle sync error "Conversion = 'F'"

C++

• Issue #132348328: C++ opening includes node never completes

Core IDE

• Issue #129091225: Android Drawable Importer has wrong res dir path when import vector
• Issue #127132288: New vector asset action does not work
• Issue #130040636: onClick method generator from xml not working
• Issue #118487169: Started crashing on startup (corrupt JSON file in ~/.AndroidStudio3.2)

Data Binding

• Issue #131889243: Studio 3.5 deadlock (Kotlin resolve + databinding)
• Issue #131435650: Completion suggestions should include imported types
• Issue #129501142: code completion: put cursor in method parens when completing functions
• Issue #129497691: code completion: support completion for java.lang classes

Deployment

• Issue #130042035: UnsatisfiedLinkError
• Issue #128208663: AS 3.5 Canary 6: Attempted app downgrades are not detected
• Issue #122936785: Databinding does not work with com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.0-beta01

Design Tools

• Issue #129801143: Request: always choose correct size when importing an SVG to be converted into VectorDrawable

Editing

• Issue #129323345: Code Formatting changes the order of components in Layout hierarchy
• Issue #119606996: Studio SQL name resolver fails on a valid query
• Issue #69240105: Missing support for complicated WITH clauses in Room queries

Gradle

• Issue #119234600: GradlePropertyModelImpl IllegalStateException: Duplicate key 1.1.5
• Issue #131393499: Update to Gradle 5.4.1
• Issue #131204372: Main dex list is empty with dynamic features and Proguard
• Issue #131114388: R8 - D8 FIrebase performance plugin - Caused by: com.android.tools.r8.utils.AbortException: Error: program input module-info.class', Unsupported source file type
• Issue #118363127: Improve Application packaging performance
• Issue #126874329: Turkish Letters Bug
• Issue #127691661: APK for minSdkVersion=M+, so files should not be compressed by default.

Gradle Sync

• Issue #124680713: NewGradleSyncNotSupportedException when trying to Gradle Sync
• Issue #129261435: Android syncing hangs if distributionSha256Sum mismatches after upgrade
• Issue #123098107: Gradle got error
• Issue #127848590: Cached sync: Crashes if a project is moved/renamed

IntelliJ

• Issue #130580475: Code Style gone from preferences
• Issue #124680708: Git Push Crashes from IDE
• Issue #113304627: Graphical artifact in loading screen

Layout Editor

• Issue #130984780: Android Studio hangs when adding an ImageView to a layout
• Issue #129926965: Adding button breaks Layout builder
• Issue #128275926: Scrolling in the Attributes pane is far too aggressive

Lint

• Issue #124466808: IconExpectedSize triggered on icon that was generated from Android Studio
• Issue #129985008: DuplicateResourceDetector throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with " \" in strings.xml
• Issue #131073349: Lint fails to add all densities/orientations of a resource to baseline, then fails on subsequent runs
• Issue #130892328: False positive DrawAllocation

New Project Wizard

• Issue #130169021: New library modules generated in Android Studio do not set consumerProguardFiles in the gradle script

Project Structure Dialog

• Issue #131468843: PSD reports "release" build as missing if it is not explicitly declared
• Issue #131481330: PSD does not reload errors.suggesting when receives additional data from Gradle

Project System

• Issue #130226195: Warning when opening KTS-based project
• Issue #131210383: Cannot resolve symbol BuildConfig on 3.5 Canary 13
• Issue #123677461: Android Gradle Plugin Update adds extra google() repository when doing repository configuration

Run Debug

• Issue #131170197: Detect and warn if debugging an app that is not "debuggable"

Shrinker (R8)

• Issue #131349148: Dalvik : java.lang.VerifyError

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 3.6, 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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