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Android Studio 4.2 Beta 5 available
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Android Studio 4.2 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 4.2, 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
This update includes fixes for the following public issues:
Android Gradle Plugin
Issue #172112073
: Location Permission granted by default with AGP 4.1.0 when using installRelease or installDebug tasks
Issue #178015739
: Cannot collect coverage data with Jacoco on regular unit test in an Android library
Issue #161727311
: Android Studio 4.1 ignores resValue and buildConfigField
APK Debugging
Issue #166750879
: [Studio 4.2 Canary 9] Java Debugger crashes for API 29 and above
Issue #169230027
: Cannot reopen lib.so after closing project
Issue #177976547
: [NDK 21.4.7075529][AS 4.2 Beta 3] AssertionError when clicked on add debug symbols
ddmlib
Issue #171839322
: UI freeze in AndroidDebugBridge.getDevices
Lint
Issue #178805864
: Filename sorting is not transitive with D8 desugared class names
Shrinker (R8)
Issue #176381203
: Undefined value encountered during compilation.
Issue #175332495
: [AGP4.2] NPE in R8
Issue #178045782
: Getting an IllegalAcessException when using proguard-android.txt
Issue #177337814
: Unrecognized Kotlin lambda ... does not implement any interfaces
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