Thursday, February 6, 2025

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Canary 4 now available

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 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 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 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.10.0-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
API
Graduate com.android.build.api.variant.HasDeviceTests to stable
Compose Preview Screenshot Testing
Can't generate screenshots: update task fails in coroutine dispatcher setup
Deployment
[Ladybug Canary 9] When running project, AS does not rebuild project anymore resulting in "Error loading build artifacts"
Feedback
Rename Help > Submit Feedback to Help > File Bug?
Gradle
When using compose in a single-variant android library, that variant should have includeSourceInformation enabled
IntelliJ
From JetBrains: stamp Bazel-built plugin metadata into product-info.json
Layout and Resource Editing
Layout scroll ???
Lint
False positive lint error for CredentialManagerSignInWithGoogle
Multiplatform
Accessing `AnalyticsEnabledSources.java` crashes if the delegate's java property is null
Room SQL
Queries querying database views give syntax error
Dropping column in query gives style check error