Thursday, November 14, 2024

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2 now available

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 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 Meerkat, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Meerkat, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-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
Provide an actionable error message when GMD setup task fails with insufficient disk space
com.android.settings plugin doesn't recognize targetSdk
Code Editor
Request: when the IDE detects an issue with missing permission on a function call, also offer annotation RequiresPermission
Lint
Lint fails with InstantiationException without exception message in lint stacktrace
False positive lint check android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM is only granted to system apps
StringFormatInvalid check should be applied to Compose stringResource method
RequiresFeature annotation does not work for Kotlin files
Logcat
Improve Match Case in Logcat FIlter
Logcat empty