Thursday, February 27, 2025

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Canary 7 now available

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Canary 7 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 Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Canary 7 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.10.0-alpha07. 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
Unable to strip the following libraries, packaging them as they are
Gradle Files Editor
[DCL] Add support for function call with lambda as last parameter
UastGradleVisitor does not correctly detect parents for method calls
Make TomlError Parser aware about catalog names and iterate through catalogs if necessary
Lint
Lint: AGP 8.10.0-alpha05 triggers lots of false positive SyntheticAccessor
Make it possible to enable NewApi on test sources
What is the effect of pressing button "LintIdeFix" after code inspection in Android Studio
Logcat
Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Canary 4- Not able to change the Logcat font and its size
Multiplatform
'Non-Android source sets detected' notification is displayed for jvm source sets in a kmp project with android and jvm targets applied