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Emulator 29.1.12 Canary

Friday, August 30, 2019

Fixed an issue that could lead to INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT on older API levels when installing APKs.

Vulkan apps are now available by default on Android API 29 and later images (depending on host GPU support; some GPUs and driver versions excluded due to GPU/driver specific issues).

Note: macOS host GPU Vulkan is not currently supported well, so it is disabled by default. Running with Vulkan Swiftshader is limited due to currently unavailable external memory/semaphore extensions.

Android Studio 3.6 Canary 9 available

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here New default packaging toolzipflingerreport a buggradle.propertiesandroid.useNewApkCreator=false release notes General fixesAPK Viewer

Issue #71548335: Selecting and copying (cmd+c) bytecode in APK Analyzer puts "/classes.dex" in the clipboard

Build

Issue #135678942: Multi-module project autocompletion on not included module

Gradle

Issue #139017699: AGP 3.6.0-alpha05 fails to compile. Unresolved reference to included layout file

Gradle Sync

Issue #139371048: Gradle sync fails with "ERROR: myNamemyName"

Project System

Issue #130257706: "Quick documentation" for Android SDK is actually unacceptably Slow, by default.

Issue #129008025: Move download of javadoc/source from Gradle to Studio

Resource Management

Issue #137882002: Unresolved layouts, menus and drawables in 3.6 on Windows

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Android Studio 3.6 Canary 8 available

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General fixesAPK Debugging

Issue #112411103: APK sometimes getting locked when using 'Profile or Debug APK...'

Core IDE

Issue #138841328: ResourceFolderRepository is loading out-of-date cache "entries"

Data Binding

Issue #139096339: Invalid red underline for method reference syntax for "View" arg function #task

Firebase Test Lab

Issue #139177566: [Studio 3.6 Canary 6] [Firebase TestLab] NPE has observed while testing application on Firebase console.

Gradle

Issue #37055147: Support maven-publish plugin

Issue #139084022: Change min/max modifiers to from/upto in shrinker rules

Gradle C++

Issue #138739739: CMake integration broken in Gradle Plugin 3.6.0-alpha05

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Android Studio 3.6 Canary 7 available

Friday, August 23, 2019

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here Support for the Maven Publish PluginMaven Publish Gradle plugincomponentpublicationSupport for the Maven Publish plugin General fixesAPK Debugging

Issue #112411103: APK sometimes getting locked when using 'Profile or Debug APK...'

Build

Issue #138404837: AS 3.6 build variants are not switched to compatible variants automatically

C++

Issue #138089120: Rename of native method

Core IDE

Issue #138841328: ResourceFolderRepository is loading out-of-date cache "entries"

Data Binding

Issue #139096339: Invalid red underline for method reference syntax for "View" arg function #task

Issue #127149948: Incorrect highlight error: ` ']' expected, got '(' `

Issue #131115695: getter and setter is shown as variable for bindings, clicking getter inserts actual variable

Deployment

Issue #136412387: Android studio shows error while launching app when app name contains "Error"

Editing

Issue #117112752: "Go to related symbols" not working in Activities and Fragments created with Kotlin

Gradle

Issue #137729143: Resources overriding strategy between external and local libraries resources is broken

Issue #37055147: Support maven-publish plugin

Issue #138920846: Fix input normalization of aidlExecutableProvider in AidlCompile

Issue #139084022: Change min/max modifiers to from/upto in shrinker rules

Gradle C++

Issue #138739739: CMake integration broken in Gradle Plugin 3.6.0-alpha05

Lint

Issue #138132330: "Android XML element is not allowed" Inspection Unaware of for FileProvider

Issue #138668379: Bug: Lint check warns about Android-X stuff having typos

Project System

Issue #135968300: Android Studio doesn't detect JAVA_HOME correctly

Testing

Issue #138120842: Studio doesn't respect testOptions.animationsDisabled

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Emulator 29.1.11 Canary

Friday, August 23, 2019

Android Studio 3.5 available in the Stable channel

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

download it hererelease notesblog post

Emulator 29.1.10 Canary, Android Q Beta 6 System Images - Multi-Display Support

Friday, August 16, 2019

Improved Android Q Vulkan 1.1 CTS conformance. Full conformance work is done but not yet released and will require a future release of the Android Q system image.

Fixed an issue where Android Q Beta 6 would fail to start up when using the WHPX hypervisor.

Due to issues using snapshots with WHPX, snapshot save is now always skipped when using WHPX. We recommend deleting ~/.android/avd/avdName.avd/snapshots when on WHPX for now.

Emulator 29.1.10 Canary and Android Q Beta 6 - Multi-Display SupportAVD folder~/.android/avd/avdName.avd/config.iniconfig.inihw.displayNhw.display1.width = 800
hw.display1.height = 1200
hw.display1.density = 320
hw.display1.xOffset = -1
hw.display1.yOffset = -1
hw.display1.flag = 0
hw.display2.width = 800
hw.display2.height = 1200
hw.display2.density = 320
hw.display2.xOffset = -1
hw.display2.yOffset = -1
hw.display2.flag = 0version 9 of the Android Compatibility Definition Document 120 <= dpi <= 640
320 * (dpi / 160) <= width
320 * (dpi / 160) <= height

If xOffset and yOffset are both -1, the emulator automatically computes the layout for each display. If setting other values, note that the origin is the top left corner of the main window. The flag field is reserved for future use.

To configure multiple displays through the UI, click right toolbar →

(the more items icon) → Settings, and configure the additional displays there. The maximum number of supported displays is ten.

Android Studio 3.6 Canary 6 available

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here Fixed issues where IDE hangs or freezes when editing XML files

We've fixed the underlying issues that were causing the IDE to hang or freeze after accepting an autocomplete suggestion in the XML editor. For more information, see Issue #133864394. If you continue to experience performance issues while editing XML files, please file a bug.

General fixesBinary Intelligence

Issue #137768457: Multiple versions in dependencies.pb file

Issue #136567112: Update Gradle so that runtime and package time dependencies are not conflated for dynamic-features

Build

Issue #134989020: Android Gradle Plugin 3.6.0-alpha03 assumes ninja binaries next to CMake

Issue #138404837: AS 3.6 build variants are not switched to compatible variants automatically

Data Binding

Issue #136194613: BR fields no longer generated for @Bindable properties

Issue #126775542: Testing with Robolectric 4.0 on DataBinding enabled lib modules will throw `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: androidx/databinding/DataBinderMapperImpl`

Editing

Issue #131127406: Can not resolve method 'getString(?)'

Gradle

Issue #137541112: Add Provider-based API for getting the mapping file

Issue #137002718: Publish zipflinger under com.android.tools.build

Issue #137488460: java.nio.file.InvalidPathException

Issue #135672715: Support targeting rules in JAR/AAR to R8/Proguard versions

Gradle C++

Issue #134374003: Android Gradle Plugin: “Expected output file at … for target … but there was none” when CMakeLists defines object libraries

Kotlin

Issue #66890777: Bug: no quick-fix for missing "when" cases (the equivalant to "switch-case" in Java)

Layout Editor

Issue #135367227: "Clear All Constraints" button does not clear constraints

Lint

Issue #131114390: Bug: quick-fix of adding permission check doesn't do anything

Issue #137035119: GradleModelMocker persists across lint invocations during tests causing an assertion to fail

Project Structure Dialog

Issue #134442868: PSD does not show hierarchical view of modules

Project System

Issue #137949567: Extra space or font alignment problem in gradle sync message

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #131572129: Provide per-variant R8 printusage and printseed output

Testing

Issue #37132226: [AS 2.3] Missing extra runner parameters field in Run Configuration for Android Instrumentation Tests

Issue #113305007: Android instrumented test never starts in debugging mode.

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Emulator 29.1.9 Canary

Friday, August 9, 2019

Restricted VM heap size calculation. 576 MB is now the maximum allowed.

Vulkan: Fixed memory leak from vkAllocateDescriptorSets.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 3 available

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here Fixed issues where IDE hangs or freezes when editing XML filesIssue #133864394file a bug General fixesBinary Intelligence

Issue #137768457: Multiple versions in dependencies.pb file

Gradle

Issue #137729143: Resources overriding strategy between external and local libraries resources is broken

Gradle Sync

Issue #135201784: Studio 3.5 Beta 4 freezes while loading AndroidX project

Lint

Issue #133377376: Android studio ide freezes

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #132897042: NullPointerException in R8 Following Control Flow Obfuscation

Issue #138044583: R8 compat mode removes unused constructor

Issue #135172146: R8 fails with "Undefined value encountered during compilation"

Issue #138668220: R8 fails when excuting task ":wallet:transformClassesAndResourcesWithR8ForRelease"

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Emulator 29.1.8 Canary

Friday, August 2, 2019

Support for a wider range of keyboards. Previously the emulator would only pass a narrow range of keycodes to the guest, corresponding to a US QWERTY keyboard. This made it difficult to use the emulator with non-US keyboards.

To address this, we now pass through all native keycodes from the user's machine and translate them to the relevant Linux keycode.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37142228
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/65338182

Fixed an issue on macOS where Ctrl-C would not kill emulators launched from the command line.

Fixed an issue on macOS where SIGTERM was being ignored (and kill <emu-pid> would not gracefully exit the emulator).

Fixed an issue where numbers entered via numpad entry would not be recognized on the emulator. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/135141621

Fixed crash when opening the Performance Stats window twice.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 2 available

Thursday, August 1, 2019

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

Issue #137277710: Update mappings to match https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate

Issue #137073253: Missing exoplayer migration rule in "Migrate to AndroidX"

Apply Changes

Issue #137795791: Exception during delta push: java.io.IOException: write failed: EBADF (Bad file descriptor)

Core IDE

Issue #130315019: StackOverflowError in XmlUtils

Dexer (D8)

Issue #136717060: Support JDK Math library JDK tests

Gradle

Issue #135665414: Aapt exception points to AndroidManifest by mistake

Issue #136987001: Resource error message rewritting not working properly since 3.5.0-alpha09

Issue #137768457: Multiple versions in dependencies.pb file

Issue #130596259: MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org.jacoco.core.jacoco

Gradle Sync

Issue #137160057: Internal sync error when syncing androidx project in Studio 3.5 Beta 5

Jetifier

Issue #133770823: "Migrate to AndroidX" doesn't migrate WorkManager

Metrics

Issue #137662411: do not repeat satisfaction dialog upon user cancel

Project System

Issue #134174287: Exception report: kotlin.KotlinNullPointerException at com.android.tools.idea.gradle.structure.navigation.PsBuildVariantsNavigationPath.queryPlace-ed807e05

Resource Management

Issue #137013090: Tabbed Pane has a background glitch in Linux

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #135627418: Gradle Plugin 3.4.1 crashes app on Android 5 devices with Verifier rejected class due to bad method

Issue #119626580: Two phases in Class staticizer are seeing different IR code.

Issue #138044583: R8 compat mode removes unused constructor

Issue #136195382: java.lang.IllegalAccessError after shrinking code with R8 shrinker wrong method is called

Issue #132897042: NullPointerException in R8 Following Control Flow Obfuscation

Issue #137484867: Converting method to return void does not take local info into account

Issue #136697156: R8 fails with "Attempt to define local of type int as moduleSize" (new in AS 3.5-beta05)

Issue #135172146: R8 fails with "Undefined value encountered during compilation"

Issue #136636007: Remove all .kotlin_metadata from r8 jars

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