Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.3 Canary 1 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.
General fixes and features
Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.3 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.13.0-alpha01. 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 |
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Run CheckAarMetadataTask in library projects when building an AAR
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Fused Library Plugin cannot process resource references from external library
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| API |
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Inform Studio about use of legacy variant API
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| C++ Build |
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AGP C++: Bump default NDK version. for AGP 9.0
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| Debugger |
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Bug: when debugging, there is no "view bitmap" link anymore on Bitmap objects
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| Gradle Integration |
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AGP Gradle Managed Devices has concurrency issues when run in parallel
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| Layout and Resource Editing |
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Bug: Bitmap preview in debug mode doesn't have correct size
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| New Code/Templates |
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Update library dependencies naming
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| Preview |
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Android Studio: RAM Usage Increases with Compose Previews and Doesn't Recover After Closing Tabs
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| Profilers |
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Go to instance action in heap dump does not work
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| Rendering |
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Compose Preview ignores HTML markup in string resources
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| Running Tests |
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gRPC message exceeds maximum size when running large test project in a Gradle-managed ATD
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| Translations Editor |
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translation editor: support for donottranslate.xml
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| UI Tools |
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