Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Android Studio Narwhal | 2025.1.1 Canary 5 now available

Android Studio Narwhal | 2025.1.1 Canary 5 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 Narwhal, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Narwhal, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Narwhal | 2025.1.1 Canary 5 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.11.0-alpha05. 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
Update Kotlin dependencies to version 2.1.20 when building AGP 8.11
C++ Import/Sync
File menu fails to appear sometimes on Meerkat, Mac
Compose Editing
Find Usages of composables doesn't list all preview usages under “@Preview usages”
Lint
New MemberExtensionConflict lint issues starting in AGP 8.11.0-alpha03 - how to solve?
Logcat
Create an Icon For the Crash App Action
Multiplatform
Cannot add generated sources to KotlinMultiplatformAndroidVariant
Network Inspector
Set Globals variable on Rules (App inspection)
Run
Minimum port 5038 for 'user managed adb' prevents use of the default port 5037 which may be desired