Thursday, February 16, 2023

Android Studio Flamingo Beta 3 is now available

Android Studio - Flamingo | 2022.2.1 Beta 3 is now available in the Beta channels.

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 Flamingo, 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 Flamingo Beta 3. 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
Lint plugin is not part of gradle-api
DexingFileDependenciesTask.outputKeepRules is a directory but is marked as an OutputFile
Upgrading to AGP 7.4 results in a StackOverflowError
Compose Preview
AS Flamingo Alpha 10 Compose Preview PermittedSubclasses requires ASM9
Dexer (D8)
Update Kotlin metadata library to version 0.6.0
Import/Sync
Gradle sync failed on AS 2022.3.1 Canary 2
Cannot invoke GradleSyncListener.syncFailed" because "syncListener" is null
JDK
Blank screen after laptop goes to sleep for multi-monitor setups
Giraffe Canary 2: UI freeze (beachball) on startup: sun.java2d.metal.MTLLayer.blitTexture
Network Inspector
TrackedHttpURLConnection.getHeaderField crashes with NullPointerException
Shrinker (R8)
NPE / assertion error in CF frame verifier
Regression after removal of field lookup cache
`:app:minifyVariantWithR8` throws a NullPointerException in AGP 7.4.0-beta02
R8: ClassNotFoundException when -allowaccessmodification
Add support for context receivers in metadata