Android Studio - Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Canary 5 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.
When deploying from the IDE, Android Gradle Plugin 7.1.0-alpha05 fixes the issue where switching and redeploying to devices running different API levels would cause some dexing tasks to re-run. Also, when deploying from the IDE, release variants now have their dexing pipeline optimized for the device you are deploying to.
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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