Monday, February 5, 2024

Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 Canary 8 now available

Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 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 Jellyfish, 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 Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 Canary 8 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.4.0-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
AGP 8.3.0-alpha11 produces release APK that crashes on startup with android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException
Android Gradle Plugin 8.2.0 install task fails in project that uses dynamic features
APK Viewer
An apk without resources has an arsc file with no chunks, crashes apk viewer
App Quality Insights
[App Quality Insights] Close issue button is hidden by app version name
Device Manager
Definitions with identical names but different IDs crash the AVD Configuration dialog
Import/Sync
Make AGP sync correctly without any `android {}` block
Network Inspector
Communicate reason for why speed data is not available
TrackedHttpURLConnection fails on getHeaders() before getInputStream()
Feature Request: export network activities
Cannot replace a substring in the response body with a Network Inspector rule
Resources
UI in "New String Value Resource" dialog is broken