Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Android Studio Giraffe Canary 6 now available

Android Studio - Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Canary 6 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 6. 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
processDebugUnitTestManifest is failing with manifest placeholders for test variants
Code Editor
Feature request: Intention to extract string resource with placeholders from Kotlin string template
Compose Editing
Consider offering an option to use a compose gutter icon to indicate composable function calls
Debugger
Stuck Collecting data... in debug
Device Manager
UI not refreshed after -returning- from HAXM Install (3.1 RC3)
Import/Sync
PSD dependencies: version catalog dependency experience is different that regular dependency
Logcat
Logcat (new version). Clickable filename in log.
Project Structure
Version Catalogs upgrade dependency suggestion- the previous dependency version is shown as null
SDK Manager
"HAXM can only be installed on Windows" error message is displayed on Windows
Missing API Level information when upgrading system images