Android Studio Dolphin Canary 7 now available

Android Studio - Dolphin | 2021.3.1 Canary 7 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 it here.

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio Dolphin, 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 it also affects you. 

New features

SDK insights

For public SDKs or dependencies that have been marked as outdated by their authors, you will now get Lint warnings in build.gradle files to update these dependencies. This is because using outdated versions could prevent you from publishing to the Google Play Console in the future.

General fixes

This update includes fixes for the following issues:

Android Gradle Plugin

• Issue #213907850: Add workers to R8
• Issue #215256062: Add desugar methods to lint model

Import/Sync

• Issue #217593045: "Gradle build model" Load Issue on IDE

Lint

• Issue #220161119: Lint IconMissingDensityFolder message uses absolute path in lint-baseline.xml
• Issue #222095229: Move VersionChecks into API package to open up visibility
• Issue #221488045: Lint's NewApi checks don't handle `when` statements in Kotlin

Known Issues

There is a known issue regarding the Firebase option not being available in the Tools menu. For a workaround, you can double-shift to search everywhere. Or, you can ctrl-shift-a to find an action and then search for "firebase".