Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Beta channel.
If you have Android Studio set up to receive updates on the Beta 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:Gradle
- 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
- Issue #128835109: resources.srcDirs = ['src'] option in gradle leakes .kt source code in artifact (APK)
- Issue #131844902: DefaultJavaEvaluator.getProject sometimes returning /media for /media2/player/...MediaPlayer.java
- Issue #133280833: <nav-graph> element can only be included in application manifest
- 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'.
We greatly appreciate your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. Note that you can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that you are also affected by it.