Thursday, October 19, 2023

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 now available

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 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 Iguana, 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 Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 8 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha08 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
Tranforming an APK leads to a error with ListingFileRedirectTask
Baseline Profiles & ProfileInstaller
Desugared classes are missing from the compiled profile
Code Editor
Android Studio deadlock (AttachAndroidSdkSourcesNotificationProvider)
Compose Editing
Don't implement optional trailing lambdas by default
Compose Preview
Change request: prev Live Template should generate a private function
Debugger
App Inspection Instructions are Misleading
Import/Sync
AndroidGradleProjectResolver.isAndroidGradleProject takes significant time
Live Edit
10-30 second freezes caused by Live Edit
Profilers
Profiler becomes unusably slow after just 3-4 runs, have to restart IDE
Resource Manager
Bug: importing SVG file puts it in wrong folder, of "drawable-svg" instead of "drawable", causing "Android resource linking failed" error
Testing
Macrobenchmark test results show same timing info for all tests using Run -> Import Tests From File