Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 3 available

Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 3 (2020.3.1.3) 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.
For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Arctic Fox, 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 Gradle plugin: Dependency configurations removed

In AGP 7.0 Canary 3, the following configurations (or dependency scopes) have been removed:

• compile
  Depending on use case, this has been replaced by api or implementation.
  Also applies to *Compile variants, for example: debugCompile.
• provided
  This has been replaced by compileOnly.
  Also applies to *Provided variants, for example: releaseProvided.
• apk
  This has been replaced by runtimeOnly.
• publish
  This has been replaced by runtimeOnly.

In most cases, the AGP Upgrade Assistant will automatically migrate your project to the new configurations.

General Fixes

This update includes fixes for the following issues:

C++ Debugger

• Issue #171300775: Display actionable error for missing dependencies: LLDBFrontend exited with code 127

Lint

• Issue #174480831: textOutput(“stderr”) now creating a file
• Issue #174500754: lint is printing its command line and exit code

New Project Wizard

• Issue #174295122: Remove $kotlin_version declaration

Run

• Issue #174783087: Running application on API30+ device occasionally fail to update the application