Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Android Studio 3.6 Beta 3 available


Android Studio 3.6 Beta 3 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.

Attach Kotlin-only APK sources to Profiler

It is now possible to attach Kotlin-only external APK sources to the Profiler. Follow the user guide for attaching Java files (.java), but instead select your Kotlin source files (.kt).

General fixes

This update also includes fixes for the following public issues:

Gradle Kotlin Lint
  • Issue #143455360: Custom lint rules fail to run when another lint.jar uses service loader entries
  • Issue #143501799: ResourceEvaluator#getResource doesn't work for kotlin expressions
Shrinker (R8)
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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