Release updates archive

Emulator 29.1.7 Canary, HAXM 7.5.2 for Windows, 7.5.1 for macOS

Friday, July 26, 2019

Fixed a Unicode path handling issue on Windows where the -kernel command line option did not work with paths that contained non-ASCII characters.

Added a command line option to name a particular run of the emulator with an ID. In the CI use case, this can make it easier to distinguish emulators and find out which one has been running on which ADB port, even when running multiple instances of the same AVD (via -read-only). Usage:

emulator -avd <avd-name> -id <id> [other-args]
Retrieve the ID via adb -s <device-serial> emu avd id

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/cbspgk/bluescreen_when_starting_android_q_emulator/

Emulator 29.1.6 Canary

Friday, July 19, 2019

Fixed issue where virtual scene camera would show a black screen.

Update on BSOD on Windows with Q Beta 5 system images

We have re-landed Q Beta 5 to macOS and Linux only.
Intel has put up a tentative HAXM fix for the BSOD issue on Windows. If you are experiencing issues with BSOD on Q images:

Install HAXM 7.5.2 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KB2e_en9ERmw9BAprLZXmoWE6XqAYTJR
Install Q Beta 5 if not installed already: Replace current Q Google APIs system image (in $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/system-images/android-29/google_apis/x86 with the x86/ folder in this link: http://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-29_r06.zip)
Reboot the Q AVD

Once we have verified the fix, we will release HAXM 7.5.2 to all channels, then Q Beta 5 to Windows.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 1 available

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General fixesGradle

Issue #130740393: Error running unit tests in Android Studio 3.4

Issue #133092984: DataBinding modules cause MergeDebugResources to run

Issue #126775254: aapt2FromMaven task input prevents build cache from being shared across different OSes

Issue #136150634: transformClassesWithMergeClassesForRelease fails with duplicate entry: META-INF/versions/9/module-info.class

Issue #130102823: StackOverflowError with DefaultPropertyState.getOrNull

Kotlin

Issue #128835109: resources.srcDirs = ['src'] option in gradle leakes .kt source code in artifact (APK)

Lint

Issue #131844902: DefaultJavaEvaluator.getProject sometimes returning /media for /media2/player/...MediaPlayer.java

Navigation

Issue #133280833: <nav-graph> element can only be included in application manifest

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #132549918: Using -keepparameternames has no effect

Issue #134304597: VerifyError: kotlinx/coroutines/AbstractCoroutine at API 17, 18

Issue #135210786: NoClassDefFoundError in runtime on API 19 and below when using AGP 3.5.0-beta04

Issue #134858535: Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesAndResourcesWithR8ForDebug'.

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Android Studio 3.6 Canary 5 available

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General fixesCore IDE

Issue #135132378: "Generate Signed Bundle or APK" => "Module" list order problem

Data Binding

Issue #135147332: Make sure "safeUnbox" doesn't show an "unresolved reference" error

Gradle

Issue #133092984: DataBinding modules cause MergeDebugResources to run

Issue #131659806: Databinding-generated classes have non-deterministic ordering, defeating gradle's remote build cache

Issue #134766811: Gradle plugin 3.6.0-alpha02 with removeUnusedResources causes app to crash on start

Issue #130363042: Gradle should guarantee delivery of error messages

Issue #130740393: Error running unit tests in Android Studio 3.4

Issue #133727918: Pass AAPT generated main dex list rules to R8

Issue #68759476: ExtractAnnotations is not relocatable

Issue #135665414: Aapt exception points to AndroidManifest by mistake

Issue #133354240: The Android Gradle plugin should not extend the JavaCompile task

Kotlin

Issue #128835109: resources.srcDirs = ['src'] option in gradle leakes .kt source code in artifact (APK)

Layout Editor

Issue #134801179: Bug : Layout Editor shapeAppearenceOverlay attribute

Lint

Issue #126221824: Enforce RestrictTo(LIBRARY_GROUP) when the API is defined in another project

Issue #68398926: Add an option to specify group and artifactId for lint

Issue #135275901: "LambdaLast" check probably shouldn't apply to Executor

Issue #132668553: Custom view Lint

Issue #134237547: UnknownNullness should run on Kotlin sources and detect platform type propagation

Issue #135681813: vector drawable compat error message needs more info

New Project Wizard

Issue #135761384: Bad ExampleInstrumentedTest file created

Project System

Issue #129994596: IllegalStateException: buildOutput.apkData must not be null when building with obfuscation [3.4.0-rc03]

Issue #129612500: Opening 2nd Project causes Indefinite display of "Indexing paused due to batch update"

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Emulator 29.1.5 Canary

Friday, July 12, 2019

Added entry points for configuring multiple displays from a hardware INI file. This will require further changes to the AVD manager along with a future Q system image update.

Increased accuracy of YUV conversion.

Added NV21 to the set of potential YUV formats converted via OpenGL.

Unified the set of YUV formats used for camera versus media buffers. This requires a future Q system image update.

Improved performance of OpenGL and Vulkan graphics.

For better debuggability of OpenGL issues, we now make it easier to log GL calls from the guest. The following environment variables control whether or not each GL call is logged:

ANDROID_EMUGL_FINE_LOG=1 whether to log individual GL calls
ANDROID_EMUGL_LOG_PRINT=1 whether to instead print out the current GL debug log versus saving it to disk (the default)

Update on BSOD on Windows with QT Beta 5 system images

We noticed that some users on Windows are getting BSODs when running QT Beta 5 system images. There is a post on reddit that goes into more detail: (https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/cbspgk/bluescreen_when_starting_android_q_emulator/). We're sorry about this and are proceeding with fix steps.

We found that one cause may be not having HAXM 7.5.1 installed, though some users are still having the issue with HAXM 7.5.1 installed. We haven't yet been able to reproduce the second case.

There is an upstream fix in the pipeline for a future HAXM release (https://github.com/intel/haxm/pull/216)

We have rolled back the QT Beta 5 system images for now while we re-land QT Beta 5 to non-Windows platforms only.

After HAXM with the fix is released, we will re-land QT Beta 5 to Windows.

If you would like to use the QT Beta 5 system image before it is re-landed, a manual download is available at http://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-29_r06.zip . To use it, make sure you have the QT Beta 4 system image installed from the SDK manager (rev 5) and AVD setup, then replace the x86/ folder in $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/system-images/android-29/google_apis/ with the one in the zip file.

Android Studio 3.4.2 available

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Stable channelHelp > Check for UpdateAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload hereGradle

Issue #131167099: Gradle Sync error: No value has been specified for property 'manifestOutputDirectory'.

IntelliJ

Issue #124680708: Git Push Crashes from IDE

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #131167099: Gradle Sync error: No value has been specified for property 'manifestOutputDirectory'.

Issue #131140696: AbortException: Error: Undefined value encountered during compilation.

Issue #131207184: Android Studio 3.5 Canary 13 - Undefined value encountered during compilation, invalid dex input

Issue #130789358: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Multiple entries with same key

Issue #131443760: Android Gradle Plugin 3.5.0-alpha13 fails with R8 1.5.20-dev (build a85ccd499f6d149322870a8aedddc92152071a01

Issue #131505760: R8 don't support obfuscationdictionary on field

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