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Android Studio 4.2 Canary 7 available

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it hereAndroid Studio Preview release notesreporting a bugvote for an existing issue General Fixes Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #161774530: LintChecks configuration resolved in non-lenient way

Issue #161405989: Projects using ivy repositories cannot sync

Issue #160714171: ProductFlavor collections/maps are now immutable in AGP 4.1.0

Issue #156837289: Data Binding errors are lost with kapt

Deployment

Issue #160192216: Bug: still can't build&run a new project on Android Studio

Third Party Plugins

Issue #152328198: Cannot upgrade Kotlin plugin via UI in Android Studio

Additionally the issue below was addressed in this release but may not necessarily be fixed: Import/Sync

Issue #158846149: Gradle OOM when syncing with AGP 4.1.0-beta01

ConstraintLayout 2.0.0 rc1

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

We are happy to announce the release candidate of ConstraintLayout 2.0. As this might be the final release before stable, we encourage people to try it and report any issues with their projects!
ConstraintLayout 2.0 adds a long list of capabilities to v1, from better runtime API to build up layouts to the introduction of new layout mechanisms such as Flow, or additional helpers like Layer.
Most notably though, this release introduces MotionLayout, an extremely powerful subclass of ConstraintLayout that you can use to easily create refined motion in your application.
In addition to the existing Layout Editor in Android Studio, allowing easy creation and edition of UI with ConstraintLayout, we recently added a new Motion Editor in Android Studio 4.0, enabling you to quickly take advantage of MotionLayout in your projects. It’s available from the google maven repository:dependencies {
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0-rc1'
}

or if using the android.support packages:
dependencies {
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:2.0.0-rc1'
}
Documentation is available on https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/widget/ConstraintLayouthttps://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/motion/widget/MotionLayoutExamples are available on https://github.com/android/views-widgets-samples/tree/master/ConstraintLayoutExamples Bugfixes
Here is the list of issues fixed in rc1. Notable fixes are:

Flow fixes
RecyclerView fixes (we recommend to update to recyclerview 1.2.0 alpha 5 or later)
MotionLayout TransitionListener fixes
MotionLayout memory leak fix

layout_constrainedWidth doesn't not work in Flow's children	157681357
NPE 's in Flow	162261507
layout_constraintDimensionRatio stays applied after a move to another ConstraintSet in MotionLayout	140263105
MotionLayout drag doesn't work after fling in RecyclerView	141319444
[ConstraintLayout 2.0.0-beta3] NPE when deriveConstraintsFrom is invalid.	143549617
apply layout_height="wrap_content" app:layout_constrainedHeight="true" this view height is full of constraint size when onCreat . And Then swich the view GONE/VISIBLE , the size change to the expected result	149427470
Flow height is bigger than it should be when its height is `wrap_content`	158285666
NullPointerException	161061411
Penultimate ImageView shifted when adding more rows	161063291
single element in the chain don't have bias applied	161741571
MotionLayout : adding views to Flow Helper	150940641
Resize in textview when I scroll in customized MotionLayout	155215198
MotionLayout firing callback endlessly with GlobalLayout	158068868
[Feature-Request] Addition of MotionScene.Transistion::getId.	160395303
Incorrect barrier and referenced view placement in 2.0.0-beta8	161156064
layout_width="wrap_content" on the parent does not work correctly when a child View has layout_constraintDimensionRatio and layout_constraintHeight_percent in 2.0.0-beta8	161826272
possible MotionLayout memory leak	161926837
Annotate ConstraintLayout constructor context param as not nullable	161926849
Android resource compilation failed after implementation 'constraint-layout:2.0.0-beta8'	162011618

Android Studio 4.2 Canary 6 available

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it hereAndroid Studio Preview release notesreporting a bugvote for an existing issueNew JVM resource compilerA new JVM resource compiler is now available in Android Gradle plugin 4.2. This tool replaces portions of the AAPT2 resource compiler, and can potentially improve build performance, especially on Windows machines. To try out the JVM resource compiler, enable it in your project's gradle.properties file:
android.enableJvmResourceCompiler=true New removable setting for dynamic feature modulesAndroid Gradle plugin 4.2 uses bundletool 1.0.0, which introduces a behavior change for apps using dynamic feature modules: Any dynamic feature module specified as dist:install-time that's not explicitly marked as dist:removable will become non-removable by default. This new setting optimizes fusing of install-time modules with the base module, potentially improving app performance for some apps. For more information on this new setting, see the documentation for the dist:removable tag in the documentation for Dynamic feature module manifest. General Fixes Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #160155450: BuildConfig not correctly honoring contract around quotations in String[]

Issue #157590496: Make the order of entries in APKs deterministic for clean debug builds, unless building from AS

Layout Inspector

Issue #155920880: Layout Inspector preview is jumping all over the place

Lint

Issue #155088391: Can no longer specify layout_height and layout_width in a style

Issue #161370707: Lint assertion check flags simple instanceof checks

Build Variants

Issue #160851593: Build Variants for dynamic feature modules don't switch when app's build variant is switched

Testing

Issue #144891963: Running an individual instrumented test doesn't work

Upgrade Assistant

Issue #139769779: Dialog for recommendation about "Android Gradle Plugin Update" shows up in the wrong Android Studio Window

Additionally the below issues were addressed in this release but may not necessarily be fixed: Build Variants

Issue #160851593: Build Variants for dynamic feature modules don't switch when app's build variant is switched

Testing

Issue #144891963: Running an individual instrumented test doesn't work

Upgrade Assistant

Issue #139769779: Dialog for recommendation about "Android Gradle Plugin Update" shows up in the wrong Android Studio Window

Emulator 30.0.23 Canary

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Emulator 30.0.23 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels. General fixes available in this release:

Fixed hang-on-exit when emulator issues shell commands with long/indefinite timeouts.

Removed spam about flushing mapped buffer with NULL.

Vulkan ASTC/ETC2 emulation shaders are now baked into the libOpenglRender library.

Android Studio 4.1 Beta 5 available

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Android Studio 4.1 Beta 5 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.

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.

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.

General Fixes

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #155318103: Post-tasks variant API: Adding manifest placeholders is broken and breaks the build from AGP 3.x to AGP 4.1.0-alpha08
Issue #160714171: ProductFlavor collections/maps are now immutable in AGP 4.1.0
Issue #156837289: Data Binding errors are lost with kapt
Issue #159878591: False positive lint check: "non-constant resource ID should not be used as annotation attribute"

Layout Editor

Issue #160102699: Navigation Drawer Menu XML preview not working/rendering

Layout Inspector

Issue #155920880: Layout Inspector preview is jumping all over the place

Lint

Issue #155088391: Can no longer specify layout_height and layout_width in a style

Android Studio 4.2 Canary 5 available

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Issue #160155450: BuildConfig not correctly honoring contract around quotations in String[]

Issue #158747359: ./gradlew connectedCheck fails with "com.android.ddmlib.InstallException: Unknown failure: Error: Unknown option: -g"

Issue #160330055: GradleAnalyticsEnvironment leaks ProviderFactory

Issue #157781501: Android gradle plugin fails to generate test coverage report with Gradle 6.4.1

Issue #159871229: Debug build causes duplicate definitions for desugared library classes

Issue #146163513: Configuration caching - connectedAndroidTest task state cannot be serialized

Issue #112699321: Support APK Signature Scheme v3

Issue #159685888: Merge java resource error message is not very useful

Issue #159434426: applicationIdSuffix cannot be empty

C++ Build

Issue #159411906: externalNativeBuildClean runs preBuild also when using AGP 4.0.0

Database Inspector

Issue #159993801: Double click on a NULL cell replaces NULL with empty string

Import/Sync

Issue #156772381: Bug: IDE tells me to update a file that doesn't exist, and in illogical place, of gradle version

Jetpack (androidx)

Issue #159160314: Veracode scan raises couple of flaws.

Lint

Issue #157781491: Lint using incorrect SDK version

New Code/Templates

Issue #159364425: Can't create activity or fragment after updating Android Studio to 4.0

Issue #159832672: Bug: creating a new project with the wizard, it doesn't use the label for the toolbar title

Running Tests

Issue #155650225: Show duration of a test in test results

View Binding

Issue #159948398: View Binding classes are not resolved in Studio 4.0+ when two modules share the same layout name+app ID

Emulator 30.0.22 Canary

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Emulator 30.0.22 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.
General fixes available in this release:

Fixed an issue where latest Asphalt 9 game rendered with a black screen.

Fixed an issue in Vulkan where if running with a Vulkan 1.0 instance on the host, vkGetImageMemoryRequirements2KHR would incorrectly clear the returned VkMemoryRequirements2 struct's pNext field.

Fixed a memory leak in Vulkan renderer.

On macOS, invtsc is now enabled by default.

The emulator now supports audio streaming in containers over WebRTC.

Android Studio 4.1 Beta 4 available

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Android Studio 4.1 Beta 4 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.

System Trace UI Improvements

The System Trace UI in the Android Studio profiler now includes:

Box selection: In the Threads section, you can now drag your mouse to perform a box selection of a rectangular area and select across multiple threads to inspect all of them at once.
Analysis Summary tab: The new Summary tab in the Analysis panel displays information about trace events and thread states.
Display data: In the Display section, new timelines for SurfaceFlinger and VSYNC help you investigate rendering issues in your app's UI.

For more information, see the release notes.

General fixes

This update also includes fixes for the following public issues:

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #158747359: ./gradlew connectedCheck fails with "com.android.ddmlib.InstallException: Unknown failure: Error: Unknown option: -g"
Issue #160155450: BuildConfig not correctly honoring contract around quotations in String[]
Issue #157781501: Android gradle plugin fails to generate test coverage report with Gradle 6.4.1
Issue #160330055: GradleAnalyticsEnvironment leaks ProviderFactory
Issue #159871229: Debug build causes duplicate definitions for desugared library classes

Database Inspector

Issue #159993801: Double click on a NULL cell replaces NULL with empty string

Dexer (D8)

Issue #158644894: Unable to build with Java desugaring in AGP 4.1.0-beta01
Issue #159275214: [library desugar] Desugar java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(ZoneId zoneId)

Import/Sync

Issue #156772381: Bug: IDE tells me to update a file that doesn't exist, and in illogical place, of gradle version

Lint

Issue #157781491: Lint using incorrect SDK version

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #160351050: Enum inlining uses the "wrong" name sometimes

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.

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.

Android Studio 4.0.1 available

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Stable channelHelp > Check for UpdateAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload hereAndroid Studio release notesreporting a bugvote for an existing issueGeneral fixesThis update also includes fixes for the following public issues: Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #154069245: Jacoco task reprocessed the same files too many times - incremental builds

Issue #157446242: build\build-attribution\androidGradlePluginAttributionData: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Issue #157888755: versionName wrong in output.json file after building .apk

Issue #140747218: Improve error messages for exceptions thrown from Jetifier

Dexer (D8)

Issue #157806261: One or more instruction is preventing default interface method from being desugared: java.util.function.Consumer it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.chars.CharConsumer.andThen(java.util.function.Consumer)

Issue #158815562: Desugaring: static methods don't work for subclasses

Issue #156142802: Backport changes that made D8 lenient with non-sense line numbers and local variable table

Issue #148661132: Assertion error on valid locals info

Issue #158124557: Library desugaring does not rewrite generic signature

Import/Sync

Issue #158018185: When using "make project", AS reports build failures when using Kotlin DSL in buildSrc

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #157966650: R8 2.0.74 raise NullPointerException with -dontobfuscate option.

Issue #158432019: IncompatibleClassChangeError happens with R8 + Kotlin object + Java lambda

Issue #158018192: R8 2.0.74 produces invalid dex file when build "release" mode

Issue #157223339: R8 2.0.74 Return of service loader rewrite issues

Issue #157926129: minifyReleaseWithR8 throws java.lang.StackOverflowError after updating Gradle Plugin to 4.0.0

Testing

Issue #146447085: Cannot run Android Instrumented Tests on Simulator with API < 21

Emulator 30.0.21 Canary

Friday, July 10, 2020

Emulator 30.0.21 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.
General fixes available in this release:

Fixed a recent regression where GLSL ES 1.00 shaders with variable names like isampler2D failed to compile.

Updated ANGLE shader translator with various fixes that address possible failure to compile shaders on Linux.

We now crash the emulator if the basic framebuffer blit shader fails to compile, in order to keep track of the phenomenon.

We now track which extended control pane was selected by the user.

Android Studio 4.2 Canary 4 available

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Canary or Dev channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General Fixes Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #158201643: ExtractAnnotations should be compatible with configuration caching

Issue #37122098: Fix renderscriptNdk

Issue #155215177: Android gradle build: excluded java source files get compiled:

Code Analysis

Issue #36978767: Add corresponding Intention for inspection "Toast created but not shown: did you forget to call show() "

Issue #62405955: (Feature request) Provide inspection for missing show() call on Snackbar

Database Inspector

Issue #157461456: Database inspector disappear from toolbar

Issue #159575631: Simple (and complex) query using With clause doesn't work on the Database Inspector

Emulator

Issue #158874142: Studio clipboard does not pick up clipboard selection from the emulator

Lint

Issue #140626689: False positive for Service.onStartCommand return value WrongConstant check

Issue #119711823: "Invalid format string" lint rule doesn't report issue for a space in patern "% s"

Issue #136534380: "Buttons in button bars should be borderless" warning in a layout XML doesn't have an auto-fix option

Issue #77299597: "Combining ellipsize=middle and maxLines=1..." warning should not show when minSdkVersion is 23 or higher

Issue #74058591: "Unexpected failure during lint analysis" for invalid replace string quick fix masks actual problem

Issue #111035260: "enable 'LogConditional'" doesn't enable check

Issue #37053735: "Unexpected cast" Inspection should offer replacement suggestion

Issue #62810553: "android:host is missing" for uris with null host

Issue #158295165: Android Lint: Unknown Issue IDs should NOT break the build

Issue #158189490: NewApi lint check does not factor in usage of core library desugaring

Manifests

Issue #158406168: Navigation component Illegal circular reference among navigation files when traversing navigation file references starting with navigationXmlId

New Code/Templates

Issue #37105561: UX: Bad proportions in new layout resource window

Resources

Issue #151480852: Bug: color preview in colors.xml file can show the wrong one, referenced by a different qualifier

SDK Manager

Issue #159176695: cmdline-tools on mac packaged incorrectly

View Binding

Issue #158065847: Autocomplete for binding classes in Android Studio 4.0 could be better

Android Studio Preview release notesreporting a bugvote for an existing issue

ConstraintLayout 2.0.0 beta 8

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of ConstraintLayout 2.0 beta 8. It’s available from the google maven repository:dependencies {
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0-beta8'
}

or if using the android.support packages:
dependencies {
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:2.0.0-beta8'
}
Documentation is available on https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/widget/ConstraintLayouthttps://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/motion/widget/MotionLayoutExamples are available on https://github.com/android/views-widgets-samples/tree/master/ConstraintLayoutExamples Bugfixes
Here is the list of issues fixed in beta 8. Notable fixes are:

Placeholder behavior
Layer visibility
Flow, Barrier fixes
TransitionListener fixes

spread_inside chain incorrect position	160721889
Using transformPivotX in MotionScene causes NumberFormatException	160100638
group visibility doesn't apply correctly in 2.0 beta 6	157599997
PlaceHolder wrap-content issue on 2.0.0-beta3 version	145317510
PlaceHolder not working	143233549
ResourcesImpl getIdentifier attempts to parse identifier name as integer for no apparent reason.	155970557
Compile time check for a group referencing itself	158112990
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with Constraint Flow on RecylcerView items	156660902
First motions goes on false position	146620824
transitionToStart() not as expected when transition change very quick	154069247
MotionLayout still leaks nested scrollable view in its mScrollTarget field	158941183
[MotionLayout] addTransitionListener throws NullPointerException	159104189
Incorrect positioning of Barriers in 2.0.0-beta5	159540431
Bug: including unused barrier breaks preview + on-device layout	157867784
Issue with ConstraintLayout barriers when using horizontal bias in 2.0.0-beta6	158585672
<OnClick> doesn't have the same behavior as MotionLayout.transitionToState(int)	146010214
[2.0.0-beta4] MotionLayout calling transitionToEnd() in lifecycle methods bug	151242173
[MotionLayout] No widget for XXXX exception is logged	138261133
MotionLayout state reset during fragment transaction	137174583
MotionLayout internal state is corrupted after using setProgress() too early in view lifecycle	148330097
MotionLayout can not transition when naviagte back	159582390
Weird status after coming back to MotionLayout	137173765
[MotionLayout] OnSwipe doesn't work if finger moved slowly	157424691
[MotionLayout] onTransitionCompleted doesn't work on api level 17	156853974

Android Studio 4.1 Beta 3 available

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Android Studio 4.1 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.

General fixes

This update also includes fixes for the following public issues:

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #156169950: variable Mutable collections BREAK source compatibility and Gradle sync on AGP upgrade from 3.x to 4.1.0-alpha09

Database Inspector

Issue #157461456: Database inspector disappear from toolbar
Issue #159575631: Simple (and complex) query using With clause doesn't work on the Database Inspector

Lint

Emulator 30.0.20 Canary

Monday, July 6, 2020

Emulator 30.0.20 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.
General fixes available in this release:

Linux emulator now uses KVM paravirtualized clock when the guest kernel version is >= 5.4 (R system images or later).

Emulator now uses LZ4 to decompress guest kernels.

If a foldable device is configured, the emulator now sends hinge angle sensors updates and posture changes to the guest.

Existing foldable devices will now update hinge sensor angle and posture when the toolbar's fold / unfold buttons are pressed.

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