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
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
Shrinker (R8)
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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