Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Android Studio 4.0 Canary 8 available


Android Studio 4.0 Canary 8 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.


General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following public issues:

Android Studio
  • Issue #146520216: Upgrading Studio 3.6.0-beta05 to 3.6.0-rc01 breaks packageDebugResources for vector drawables
Gradle Lint
  • Issue #135168818: False unused resources reported in Kotlin suspend function
  • Issue #142952555: Setting -Dlint.baselines.continue=true still prints the same error message recommending to set this property
  • Issue #140328642: Lint False positive Unused Resources with Kotlin suspend fun
  • Issue #143972324: Resource folding and linting broken within private Kotlin suspend functions
  • Issue #141622949: "NewApi" lint does not work inside Kotlin private suspend functions

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 4.0, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.

We greatly appreciate your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. Note that you can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that you are also affected by it.