Thursday, September 26, 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 4 now available

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 features

Below 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
[AGP] Lazy SdkComponents.ndkDirectory provider fails to produce value, but eager android.ndkDirectory API works
APK Viewer
Allow jumping to node from "Find usages" in APK Analyzer
APK Analyzer: UI of method references vs definitions very confusing
Building AOSP
LibFuzzer not available to vendor module in Android
Database Inspector
App Inspection > Database Inspector: Persist IDE choices across app runs
Infrastructure
Upgrade to Gradle 8.10.2
IntelliJ
Cannot open Android studio: Missing essential plugins
Layout and Resource Editing
XML Layout Refactor repeated - setting back to original value ?
Lint
Handle type-use annotations in more cases for UnknownNullness lint
AGP 8.6.1: Regression - WrongConstant lint failure when using [Int].toLong() inside a @LongDef in Kotlin
Multiplatform
AGP-KMP is not propagating returnDefaultValues = true; it doesn't function
StudioBot
Android Studio appends "Ask Gemini" to the title message of every stack trace in Logcat