Friday, August 25, 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog Beta 1 now available

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 Beta 1 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 Hedgehog, 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

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog Beta 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0-beta01. 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 SDK Upgrade Assistant
Target SDK Upgrade Assistant never loads
Import/Sync
UI for "Gradle JDK" does not synchronize field content
Unable to make progress running work.
Layout Inspector
Debug app crashes sometimes when Layout Inspector is active
Lint
Unexpected issues from another project flagged by Android Lint
Android Lint fails on a KMP library with `property 'variantInputs.name' doesn't have a configured value.`
Run
Cannot save Dynamic features settings on run/debug configurations
Shrinker (R8)
java.lang.VerifyError: Verifier rejected class
Build gets stuck on :minifyReleaseWithR8 when using Apache POI library