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
- Issue #135900510: Fix task validation errors
- Issue #141861587: Zipflinger creating apk which unzip with empty file permissions
- Issue #142498320: Execution failed for task ':data:compileDebugLibraryResources'. Android Studio 3.6-beta01
- Issue #139804255: Refactorings put XML entities in the change
- 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
- Issue #142909854: R8 Generate Code Causing java.lang.VerifyError
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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