Android Studio - Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Canary 4 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.
If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download 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.
Build tools support
The minimum supported build tools version for Android Gradle Plugin 7.1.0-alpha04 is now 30.0.3. Projects that specify a lower version in their build files will automatically use the minimum supported version.
Publish sources jar
Android Gradle Plugin 7.1.0 and higher allows you to publish java & kotlin source jars apart from AARs for library projects. The sources will be added to POM and Gradle module file. You can enable this feature by adding withSourcesJar() under singleVariant or multipleVariants publishing block. To learn more, see examples here.
General fixes and features
The bug fixes included in this update can be found here. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.
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