Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.2 Canary 5 is now available in the Canary channel.
If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel,
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For information on new features and changes in Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes.
For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop, see
closed issues.
General fixes and features
Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.2 Canary 5 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.12.0-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 |
Gradle plugin should merge test manifest when includeAndroidResources == true
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Source files from src/extraMain/java aren’t added to the compiler using "built-in-kotlin"
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ASwB |
Unable to build OSS version of ASWB post bzlmod migration
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Compiler & Runtime |
ProduceStateDoesNotAssignValue false positive
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Compose Editing |
Automatic library import for Compose imports android-specific version
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Gradle |
False positive on version catalog references
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CriticalPathAnalyzerTest.testCriticalPathAnalyzerOnNoOpBuild() has invalid assertThat usage
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Gradle Files Editor |
Make sure toml error parser supports catalog errors
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Make sure declarative parser can recover function when function attribute is a function call
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Layout Inspector |
Layout Inspector not showing count of recompositions within children
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Lint |
AbstractAnnotationDetector checks wrong overloaded functions/constructors
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