Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Android Studio Flamingo Canary 9 now available

Android Studio - Flamingo | 2022.2.1 Canary 9 is now available in the Canary channel.

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 Flamingo, 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

The following is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Flamingo Canary 9. These are a result of your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. You can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that it also affects you.

Android App Bundles
  • Issue #208593320: Allow the capability to specify path for libraries to be included in App bundle which are built externally
Android Gradle Plugin
  • Issue #211012777: lint.xml in modules is not considered for UP-TO-DATE check of lint tasks
  • Issue #197342475: Android Gradle Plugin 7.0+ and Android Tests issue: Cannot find resource: id
  • Issue #255788407: configureCMakeDebug flakily crashing with null pointer exception
  • Issue #254292369: IllegalAccessError upgrading project to AS2022.2.1.5, FireBasePerfPlugin
  • Issue #255584199: Sync fails with cryptic error "Collection contains no element matching the predicate."
AVD Manager
Compose Editing
Compose Preview
  • Issue #240601093: KotlinReflectionNotSupportedError: Kotlin reflection implementation is not found at runtime
Import/Sync (R8)
  • Issue #236692992: JDK missing from the IDE
  • Issue #248658503: OutputBuildAction has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime
  • Issue #256669321: No run configurations created for modules with "com.android.test" Gradle plugin
  • Issue #254306029: False positive IDE warning about Java 'preview' language level
  • Issue #248576926: Frozen IDE attempting kotlin method refactor in large project
IntelliJ
  • Issue #240307731: Project leak via FocusChangeListener in FileEditorManagerImpl
Kotlin Plugin
  • Issue #238235642: Regression in EE: Extracting a method sometimes doesn't work
Lint
  • Issue #257726238: Android Studio improperly marks specified version as out-of-date.
  • Issue #256418226: AndroidDeprecationInspection.DeprecationFilter EP is never registered in android-plugin.xml file
New Code/Templates
  • Issue #255821913: Android Studio generates wrong activity statement in manifest when the new activity is not created in the root directory of the project
  • Issue #257290395: Empty Views Activity template fails to import R class when the activity is not created in the root package
  • Issue #254186242: Databinding is not supported in Android Studio Template.
Profilers
  • Issue #256641354: Bottom Up view of simpleperf trace not populating correctly in Flamingo C6
Wear
  • Issue #238504627: Using "esc" as back button shortcut loses focus on the emulator