Thursday, October 31, 2019

Android Studio 3.6 Beta 2 available


Android Studio 3.6 Beta 2 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 also includes fixes for the following public issues:

Android Studio
  • Issue #142467886: Too many attributes in a single causes the app to crash when access R.styleable
Data Binding
  • Issue #142286949: Bindings are being created for non-data binding layouts
  • Issue #142288059: MergedManifestManager.getSnapshot(facet).getPackage() returns null unexpectedly
  • Issue #140999936: AGP 3.6-alpha11: error: cannot generate view binders java.lang.StackOverflowError
  • Issue #142130560: Arch components github sample does not compile with AGP 3.6.alpha11
  • Issue #141633235: data binding crashes if you have Foo extends LiveData
Gradle
  • Issue #141536986: Missing native libs after update an external dependency with native libs java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError find "libmylib-jni.so"
  • Issue #141869049: aaptOptions.noCompress should be case-insensitive for android resources
Lint Profilers Shrinker (R8) View Binding
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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