You can now use Natvis files to customize the way C++ objects are displayed in the native debugger.
To learn more, see the release notes.
This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
Starting with Arctic Fox Canary 6, you can now inspect layouts written with the new Android declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose. Whether your app uses layouts fully written in Compose or layouts that use a hybrid of Compose and Views, the Layout Inspector helps you understand how your layouts are rendered on your running device.
This feature requires that each module using the Compose UI declare the following dependencies.
debugImplementation "androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling:1.0.0-alpha11" debugImplementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:1.4.21"
To get started, deploy your app to a connected device and then open the Layout Inspector window by selecting View > Tool Windows > Layout Inspector.
When you inspect failed assertions after running instrumented tests, it's sometimes difficult or time consuming to reproduce that test failure again. However, reproducing those failures on your connected device is critical in helping you diagnose the issue, either by attaching a debugger or interacting with the app at the time of failure.
In Android Gradle plugin 7.0-alpha06 and higher, we're introducing automated test snapshots – a quicker way to reproduce test failures by leveraging Emulator snapshots. In other words, when your instrumented tests running on a connected Emulator encounter a Java or Kotlin assertion that fails, the device takes a snapshot at the time of failure. After your test run completes, you can then reload the snapshot on the same device in order to reproduce and investigate that failure.
7.0-alpha06
Posts