Friday, June 13, 2025

Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.2 Canary 5 now available

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, 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 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
Source files from src/extraMain/java aren’t added to the compiler using "built-in-kotlin"
ASwB
Unable to build OSS version of ASWB post bzlmod migration
Compiler & Runtime
ProduceStateDoesNotAssignValue false positive
Compose Editing
Automatic library import for Compose imports android-specific version
Gradle
False positive on version catalog references
CriticalPathAnalyzerTest.testCriticalPathAnalyzerOnNoOpBuild() has invalid assertThat usage
Gradle Files Editor
Make sure toml error parser supports catalog errors
Make sure declarative parser can recover function when function attribute is a function call
Layout Inspector
Layout Inspector not showing count of recompositions within children
Lint
AbstractAnnotationDetector checks wrong overloaded functions/constructors