Android Studio - Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 RC2 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 Electric Eel, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.
General fixes
This update addresses the following issues. For details of new features and bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.
Android Gradle Plugin
- Issue #258704137: r8.jvmArgs don't get used
Deployment
- Issue #260517780: Device mirroring issue
Fragment
- Issue #237567009: Fragment DialogFragmentCallbacksDetector Lint is broken when I upgrade to lint 30.4.x (AGP 7.4.x)
Import/Sync
- Issue #256669321: No run configurations created for modules with "com.android.test" Gradle plugin
- Issue #248576926: Frozen IDE attempting kotlin method refactor in large project
Lint
- Issue #259140252: Lint: NPE due to querying Application instance in mergeOnly mode
Shrinker (R8)
- Issue #238399429: [R8 3.3.68] Crash on some Android 6 devices after upgrading from R8 3.2
- Issue #258270051: Latest version com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.3.1 with okhttp 3.12.13 crashes on Android API 16
- Issue #259389417: R8 doesn't properly obfuscate enum constant values for Kotlin enum class
- Issue #259298098: R8 stripping out unused field, causes NPE in the code down below in the class constructor.
- Issue #259933493: Creating an D8 AppInfo for horizontal merging may invalidate D8 type assumptions