Thursday, October 19, 2023

Android Studio Iguana Canary 9 now available

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 9 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 9 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha09 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
Transforming the ASSETS artifact give broken input/output locations
Promote android.experimental.r8.dex-startup-optimization=true to be default
Editing
shrinkunusedprotofields is marked as invalid flag in proguard-rules.pro
IntelliJ
Iguana: Process 471 is still running
Lint
Quickfix Lint doesn't work and results in an IDE error
Inconsistent test failure due to partial analysis
Logcat
Add a Process Name Column in Logcat