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Android Studio 4.0 Beta 1 available

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it hereGeneral fixesAndroid Gradle Plugin

Issue #144513656: Lint's Gradle task hangs after update to AGP 3.6.0-beta04

Issue #146869072: Task failed on mergeExtDex

Issue #147768068: AGP 3.6 RC 1 produces non constants R fields when using the android name space.

Issue #148005697: [AGP 4.0.0-alpha08] DataBindingInfo is being defined in the same package across different modules

Issue #147289282: The option setting 'android.enableR8=true' is deprecated.null

Android Studio

Issue #71894463: Radial Gradient SVG from Sketch is not imported correctly by the Vector Asset Tool

Build

Issue #147448576: AGP 3.6 RC 1: Unsupported gradient type: "sweep"

Build Output

Issue #146593375: Processing the events in the build output windows delays the app install

C++ Import/Sync

Issue #148805330: Syncing C++ projects leak memory in AGP 3.6rc02

Code Editor

Issue #146115250: Data Binding functionality stops working (Logs show crash in LayoutBindingShortNamesCache$3.compute)

Issue #147802433: Proguard unresolved symbols shown in gray instead of red

ConstraintLayout

Issue #140882056: ConstraintLayout's Flow class located in different package in androidx and android.support

Data Binding

Issue #147609508: Data Binding not resolving the binding class for layouts in different sourceSet

Issue #146538006: IDE sometimes fails to resolve "include" layouts

Design Tools

Issue #147805557: Improve packing algorithm in multi preview window

Dexer (D8)

Issue #147865212: D8 in debug mode fails for valid local information spanning only a 'nop'

Issue #148734239: Running R8 or D8 loses the 4.X version of compatibility.

Issue #148366506: Bug in PeepholeOptimizer

IntelliJ

Issue #145767113: Failed to start Git process User Authentication Token not found

Layout Editor

Issue #143600084: Views cannot be dragged to Flow element in component tree

Issue #37117915: Help button for Layout Editor

Layout Inspector

Issue #148890011: LayoutInspector violates WebView Strict Mode and spams popups

Lint

Issue #64415817: NPE on method reference

Issue #113198298: UnusedResources should handle checking dynamic feature modules

New Project Wizard

Issue #148930092: Modules without .iml files may cause "empty android project view"

Issue #147701786: Strings not escaped for app name

Project System

Issue #147246554: "Not a gradle Project" When a build file is defined in the settings.gradle.kts with rootProject.buildFileName

Issue #128673540: kotlin DSL gradle and AndroidX refactoring

Project View

Issue #111527585: Android project view refreshes over and over again

Resources

Issue #148173587: [Regression] Importing SVG is broken ("fillType was already specified")

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #147411673: R8 causes issues with OkHttp 4.3

Issue #147386014: Class.genericInterfaces returns T in the array

Issue #147480426: NullPointerException at ProguardMapMinifier.java while compiling androidTest apk

Issue #147470785: R8 causes issues with aar specified proguard.txt

Issue #148313389: Incorrect vertical class merging with full mode enabled leads to crash (AGP 3.6.0-rc1 and higher)

Issue #148021799: Unreachable DexItemBasedConstString in AGP 3.5.3

Issue #148525512: Version 2.1.2-dev (java-lang-VerifyError)

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