General fixes
This update also includes fixes for the following public issues:
Android Gradle Plugin
Build Variants
- Issue #150325708: Build Flavour resets itself to default each time I restart Android Studio
Dexer (D8)
Import/Sync
Layout Editor
Lint
Lint Inspections
Run
- Issue #144274828: "Build resource" action runs JPS builder in Android Studio
- Issue #150583984: ApkProvisionException: No outputs for the main artifact of variant: debug
Shrinker (R8)
- Issue #151649643: coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled = true leads to ClassNotFoundException on debug builds
- Issue #150274427: RET should be handled by the ASM jsr inliner
View Binding
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.
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