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.
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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"
- Issue #160102699: Navigation Drawer Menu XML preview not working/rendering
- Issue #155920880: Layout Inspector preview is jumping all over the place
- Issue #155088391: Can no longer specify layout_height and layout_width in a style