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Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 4 now available

štvrtok 26. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 4 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-alpha04. 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

Issue #368816424

[AGP] Lazy SdkComponents.ndkDirectory provider fails to produce value, but eager android.ndkDirectory API works

APK Viewer

Issue #138093271

Allow jumping to node from "Find usages" in APK Analyzer

Issue #79568682

APK Analyzer: UI of method references vs definitions very confusing

Building AOSP

Issue #291511589

LibFuzzer not available to vendor module in Android

Database Inspector

Issue #350526050

App Inspection > Database Inspector: Persist IDE choices across app runs

Infrastructure

Issue #365554073

Upgrade to Gradle 8.10.2

IntelliJ

Issue #365493089

Cannot open Android studio: Missing essential plugins

Layout and Resource Editing

Issue #363323097

XML Layout Refactor repeated - setting back to original value ?

Lint

Issue #362486222

Handle type-use annotations in more cases for UnknownNullness lint

Issue #367752734

AGP 8.6.1: Regression - WrongConstant lint failure when using [Int].toLong() inside a @LongDef in Kotlin

Multiplatform

Issue #369130174

AGP-KMP is not propagating returnDefaultValues = true; it doesn't function

StudioBot

Issue #368587212

Android Studio appends "Ask Gemini" to the title message of every stack trace in Logcat

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 3 now available

pondelok 23. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 3 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 3 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-alpha03. 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

APK Viewer

Issue #138093271

Allow jumping to node from "Find usages" in APK Analyzer

Issue #293642496

APK Analyzer display wrong size in APK's inner APK entry

Issue #79522585

"show bytecode" action should be more accessible

Issue #79521608

bytecode viewer is a non-standard dialog

Issue #182906226

Android Plugin in IDEA prevents IDEA from opening ZIP files

Issue #192479640

Arctic Fox: resources.arsc often fails to load in APK Analyzer

Connection Assistant

Issue #110692943

Connection Assistant - Bugged Symbols

Device Manager

Issue #181336801

Creating device | AS doesn't save the amount of RAM

Editing

Issue #361784551

AS 2024.1.2 RC 1 hangs frequently

Gradle

Issue #364634034

Isolated Projects violations in `addGradleAndroidTestListener.gradle`

Layout and Resource Editing

Issue #365052678

Font Changes to "More Fonts..."

Logcat

Issue #291697265

Feature Request: logcat should automatically use retrace for R8 obfuscated stack traces

Issue #139380700

Pixel 3 and 3a unavailable as options in the Frame Screenshot drop-down menu

New Code/Templates

Issue #67937561

Auto Messaging Template Support Notification Channels

Resource Manager

Issue #359613383

Resource Picker Search Bar Not Focusing

Resources

Issue #192814728

Android Resource Directory is hidden

Issue #365591190

Source sets from submodules not listed while creating a new string

Running Tests

Issue #365922158

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when running tests using JUnit

StudioBot

Issue #355249254

Enable Gemini AI code completion for C++ and Dart

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 RC 1 now available

pondelok 23. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 RC 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 RC 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.7.0-rc01. 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

Lint

Issue #364261817

"False positive" WrongConstant when using PackageManager.ResolveInfoFlags.of with Kotlin

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2 Patch 1 now available

utorok 17. septembra 2024

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2 Patch 1 is now available in the Stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Koala Feature Drop, see the Android Studio release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Koala Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2 Patch 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.6.1. 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

Dexer (D8)

Issue #359616078

Dexing task/transform generates non-deterministic classes.dex contents

Gradle

Issue #354109782

R8 regression from 8.4.2 to 8.5.0

IntelliJ

Issue #361027507

Cannot close Koala when updating indices (which takes forever)

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #355238622

R8 8.5.x StackOverflowError in SimpleInliningConstraintAnalysis

Issue #359385828

Task :xxxx:minifyXXXReleaseWithR8 ERROR: R8: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException

Issue #358913905

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.android.tools.r8.ir.analysis.type.TypeElement.asClassType()"

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 2 now available

štvrtok 12. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 2 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-alpha02. 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

Issue #295373352

Implement flag to disable AGP minimum version checking

Issue #364331837

AGP has confusing interactions with configuring kotlin compiler options

Issue #280680434

AGP should expose a BuiltArtifactLoader for target project apk in com.android.test projects

Code Editor

Issue #356171302

Issue with expanding R.string.xxx lines

Issue #364549431

"Enable compose formatting for modifiers" option formats too much

Compose Preview

Issue #279808557

Accessing Sensor System Service Stops Compose Preview From Rendering

Issue #248802205

Code using the vibrator crashes the compose preview

Issue #262773698

Compose Preview broken when using HTML text with b-Tags

Database Inspector

Issue #365493097

Cannot use database inpsector on Android studio app inspection

Debugger

Issue #114309448

SyncService incorrectly calculates size of directory

Device Manager

Issue #232422970

density incorrectly calculated in avd manager

Issue #261884044

Emulator AVD editor always reverts "Device Type" back to Phone/Tablet when it is an "automotive" device

Issue #269018480

avdmanager: sdcard size not taken into account

Layout and Resource Editing

Issue #318982330

Consider removing the Hamcrest dependency in layoutlib APIs

Issue #226457466

BufferedInputStream cannot be cast to class AssetManager$AssetInputStream

Lint

Issue #364261817

"False positive" WrongConstant when using PackageManager.ResolveInfoFlags.of with Kotlin

Issue #365376495

"At least one host must be specified" lint error when setting http or https intent-filter scheme

Logcat

Issue #283470667

Android Studio's 'Record Screen' option fails to overwrite existing file

Issue #338535766

ADB scrolling works terribly!

New Project Wizard

Issue #37121623

Help button for Import Samples dialog

Resource Manager

Issue #223815263

Resource Manager doesn't show drawables with custom color attributes

Issue #173833413

Resource Manager crops some vector drawables

Issue #364904755

Resource Manager not working properly in Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2

View Binding

Issue #347649759

Auto-import and autocomplete not working for generated ViewBinding class in K2 Mode

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Beta 2 now available

štvrtok 12. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Beta 2 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Beta 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.7.0-beta02. 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

Lint

Issue #360840930

KtAnalysisSessionProvider incompatibility with lint checks introduced in 8.7.0-alpha04

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 1 now available

pondelok 9. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 1 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-alpha01. 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

Issue #250664038

Consider annotate input type for JacocoTransform as a @Classpath

Issue #328495232

com.android.build.api.variant.GeneratesApk should expose minSdk

Issue #317358817

com.android.settings plugin doesn't recognize targetSdk

Issue #327399383

SourceDirectories.addGeneratedSourceDirectory is not friendly to multiple variants

Code Editor

Issue #159339677

Request: add auto completion helpers for annotation: @RequiresPermission

Dagger/Hilt Support

Issue #362992725

Dagger injected providers missing gutter icon with K2

Gradle Files Editor

Issue #345518607

Changes to build.gradle made from diff viewer are not detected

Lint

Issue #360840930

KtAnalysisSessionProvider incompatibility with lint checks introduced in 8.7.0-alpha04

Lint Integration

Issue #332755363

Lint variant task is not found after evaluation

Logcat

Issue #353080240

Logcat scrolling to the end doesn't work

Manifests

Issue #126443931

Tried using tools:node="merge-only-attributes" but couldn't with no error message

Navigation Editor

Issue #362766820

Add naveditor to ktfmt presubmit hook

Project Structure

Issue #159059846

Zero-width buttons in Project Structure

Running Devices

Issue #136633150

Copy & paste not working in Android Studio (Linux)

StudioBot

Issue #361535281

(Ask Gemini) shows up in logcat without being a link

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Beta 1 now available

štvrtok 5. septembra 2024

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 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 Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Ladybug, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug, see closed issues.

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