Android Studio 3.6 Canary 12 available

Android Studio 3.6 Canary 12 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.

Fragment wizard and new fragment templates

A new Fragment wizard and fragment templates are now available by navigating to File > New > Fragment > Gallery or by clicking Create new destination in the Navigation editor.

General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
APK Viewer

• Issue #137130596: Analyze apk could not be completed.

Data Binding

• Issue #140645228: Variables declared in other same name layout files are not recognized
• Issue #139933333: Unresolved binding fields in nested controls

Dexer (D8)

• Issue #140290149: Class module-info is missing a super type. Class file version 53.

Editing

• Issue #140362782: Files created by templates are not picked up by resource repositories

Layout Editor

• Issue #140678037: Visualization tab disappears in 3.6 Canary 10

Lint

• Issue #133465551: Lint 26.5.0-beta02 DefaultLocale triggers on Kotlin's decapitalize method

New Project Wizard

• Issue #138951281: Create New Module wizard is blocked by Project needs to be converted to androidx.* dependencies

Run Debug

• Issue #138127703: Misleading DDMS message

View Binding

• Issue #136103081: <include> inside <merge> is not allowed

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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