Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) 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:AndroidX
- Issue #137277710: Update mappings to match https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate
- Issue #137073253: Missing exoplayer migration rule in "Migrate to AndroidX"
- Issue #137795791: Exception during delta push: java.io.IOException: write failed: EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
- Issue #130315019: StackOverflowError in XmlUtils
- Issue #136717060: Support JDK Math library JDK tests
- 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
- Issue #137160057: Internal sync error when syncing androidx project in Studio 3.5 Beta 5
- Issue #133770823: "Migrate to AndroidX" doesn't migrate WorkManager
- Issue #137662411: do not repeat satisfaction dialog upon user cancel
- Issue #134174287: Exception report: kotlin.KotlinNullPointerException at com.android.tools.idea.gradle.structure.navigation.PsBuildVariantsNavigationPath.queryPlace-ed807e05
- Issue #137013090: Tabbed Pane has a background glitch in Linux
- 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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