Android Studio 4.1 Canary 6 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.
Live updates in the Database Inspector
When inspecting a table in your app’s database, if your app makes updates to the table and you want to automatically see those updates in the Database Inspector window, check the box next to Live updates.To learn more, see the release notes.
General Fixes
Android Gradle Plugin- Issue #152872138: Disabling AGP features causes ./gradlew connectedCheck to fail
- Issue #152293185: android.dexingNumberOfBuckets' default value may prevent remote build cache hit
- Issue #152898926: "More than one file was found with OS independent path" when submodules have the same name
- Issue #152500503: Downgrade “Creating configuration” to debug-level?
- Issue #152303796: The quickfix to update Gradle version has lost since Android Studio 4.0
- Issue #141613553: Studio should know what plugins are applied to the build
- Issue #123835101: Quickfix is out of reach and crashes on same input
- Issue #145436360: Bug: never ending loading of Strings translation tool
- Issue #152413696: ViewBinding: including layout with an ID equal to the layout name produces "variable might not have been initialized"
For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 4.1, 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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