Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Android Studio Chipmunk Beta 4 now available

Android Studio - Chipmunk | 2021.2.1 Beta 4 is now available in the Beta channel.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or 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 Chipmunk, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.

General fixes and features

This update includes fixes for the following issues:

Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #207670704: AGP 7.2.0-alpha05 breaks builds that use the Navigation Safe Args plugin
  • Issue #204328120: Vague error for invalid values.xml file
  • Issue #218370114: "Java file outside of source root" when using manifest.srcFile
  • Issue #210484302: Android studio 2021.1.1 beta5 . Gradle sync fails with "Unable to load class 'com.android.build.api.extension.AndroidComponentsExtension'."
  • Issue #196226533: AGP should not use ProjectComponentIdentifier.projectPath without ProjectComponentIdentifier.build
  • Issue #203003899: AGP looks for ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, not ANDROID_HOME
Build Variants
  • Issue #158597249: versionNameSuffix no longer works if variant's version name is set via the new onVariants API
Compose Editing
Emulator
Lint
Navigation
Network Inspector
  • Issue #217765670: Network Inspector in BumbleBee doesn't show the api response in readable format
  • Issue #219572925: TrackedHttpURLConnection.getHeaderField crashes with NullPointerException
  • Issue #220807361: I am constantly getting this error when the debugger is connected on the latest version of Android Studio.
  • Issue #219563755: New Network Inspector crashes after Bumblebee update
New Code/Templates
  • Issue #117641634: Bug of error message: Argument for @NotNull parameter 'text2' of com/intellij/diff/comparison/ComparisonManagerImpl.isEquals must not be null
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