Android Studio 3.6 Canary 3 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:Core IDE
- Issue #133066328: Error preview when creating image asset > icon launcher (Preview rendering error: rendering failed - null)
- Issue #133403822: Unable to re-install APK from Studio 3.5 Beta 1
- Issue #118842646: Ability to selectively suppress warnings during D8 desugaring
- Issue #120407095: Improve rowid handling for Room
- Issue #133394180: Do not pass classpath to D8 if minSdkVersion is 24+
- Issue #133169145: ProcessAnnotationsTask does not clean out output directories if annotation processors were removed
- Issue #132566912: Gradle sync with errors produces two FinishBuildEventImpl events with the same ID
- Issue #63884192: Errors in layout XML show up in generated files when build fails
- Issue #127662898: Test module fails to run in studio, succeeds from cmd line
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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