Android Studio 3.6 Canary 7 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.
Support for the Maven Publish Plugin
Android Gradle plugin 3.6-alpha07 now includes support for the Maven Publish Gradle plugin, which allows you to publish build artifacts to an Apache Maven repository. The Android Gradle plugin creates a component for each build variant artifact that you can use to customize a publication to a Maven repository. To learn more, see Support for the Maven Publish plugin.General fixes
This update includes fixes for the following public issues:APK Debugging
- Issue #112411103: APK sometimes getting locked when using 'Profile or Debug APK...'
- Issue #138404837: AS 3.6 build variants are not switched to compatible variants automatically
- Issue #138089120: Rename of native method
- Issue #138841328: ResourceFolderRepository is loading out-of-date cache "entries"
- 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
- Issue #136412387: Android studio shows error while launching app when app name contains "Error"
- Issue #117112752: "Go to related symbols" not working in Activities and Fragments created with Kotlin
- 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
- Issue #138739739: CMake integration broken in Gradle Plugin 3.6.0-alpha05
- 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
- Issue #135968300: Android Studio doesn't detect JAVA_HOME correctly
- Issue #138120842: Studio doesn't respect testOptions.animationsDisabled
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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