Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11 available

Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11 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.

View Binding

View binding is a new feature that provides compile-time safety when referencing views in your code. You can now replace findViewById() with the auto-generated binding class reference.
For example, activity.xml -> ActivityBinding.java.
To take advantage of View binding in a module of your project, add the following line to its build.gradle file:

    android {
        viewBinding.enabled = true
    }

To learn more, check out the documentation. If you have any feedback or encounter any issues, please report a bug.

General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
Build

• Issue #139769925: Gradle composite build causes stack overflow in included build
• Issue #136242040: Spaces ignored in links to file paths
• Issue #138131992: Error link do not set editor to correct line and column anymore, only to upper left (1,1)

Data Binding

• Issue #140509347: PsiModelMethod NPE: var parameterType = getParameter(i, parameterTypes)!! #task
• Issue #137047493: Track view binding layout numbers
• Issue #139933333: Unresolved binding fields in nested controls

Editing

• Issue #137878819: RoomSql Fragment Editor doesn't resolve symbols as the raw files do (triple quotes)
• Issue #124656558: com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException in Alt-Enter

Gradle

• Issue #139821728: When add ‘android.enableSeparateAnnotationProcessing=true’, processDebugAnnotationsWithJavac task cannot be created
• Issue #139464147: Update to Gradle 5.6

Gradle Sync

• Issue #139696602: Links to re-run sync don't terminate the resulting sync correctly
• Issue #133342563: Exception when checking whether upgrade is possible

Lint

• Issue #133226746: Lint warning for textAlignment with minSdkVersion of 16
• Issue #139566120: Lint check showing incorrect warning with TypedArray recycle call

Project Structure Dialog

• Issue #136389141: buildTypes.each caused an error in project's structure suggestion

Project System

• Issue #139350627: Data binding: Cannot find identifier when referencing views in XML
• Issue #131991567: AS prompt generates gradle proxy data exception

View Binding

• Issue #139411389: Type mismatch when an tag has an id

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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