Thursday, January 26, 2023

Android Studio Giraffe Canary 2 now available

Android Studio - Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Canary 2 is now available in the Canary channel.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary 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 Giraffe, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.

The following is list of general fixes in Android Studio Giraffe Canary 2. 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.

Fixed Issues
Android Gradle Plugin
[Android Studio : Flamingo | 2022.2.1 Canary 8] liblog.so is packaged inside the APK
KGP reads manifest during configuration, invalidating configuration cache on manifest change
Build warning message unclear when problem in merged manifest
Compose Preview
"Render issues" found while rendering Compose previews, but the Problems tab is empty
Deployment
com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: 345 ms to call on EDT DeviceAndSnapshotComboBoxAction#update@NavBarToolbar
Emulator
Record Screen hangs when switching emulators during recording
Import/Sync
Updating gradle-wrapper.properties does not start a new Gradle daemon
Installer
Android Studio Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 can't open Windows 11
Lint
Lint false positive about remember after Kotlin upgrade to 1.8.0
False positive Lint warning for SDK_INT checks performed inside a method with a enum parameter
New Project Wizard
Sluggish painting performance in the new project template chooser
Running Devices
Loading of Quickboot snapshot always fails and takes the emulator with it
SDK Manager
NDK fails to install due to checksum error