Thursday, September 25, 2025

Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 Canary 2 now available

Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 Canary 2 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 Otter, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Otter, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 Canary 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0-alpha07. 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
A build fails if there are code generation tasks
With `android.builtInKotlin=false` and `android.newDsl=false` and `android.enableLegacyVariantApi=false`, using `kotlin-android` plugin will fail with "API 'applicationVariants' is obsolete"
Built-in Kotlin fails to resolve unversioned kotlin-stdlib when kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency=false
DexData opens a file without closing, preventing cleanup
AndroidSourceDirectorySet should stop extending PatternFilterable in AGP 9.0
Code Analysis
CustomViewStyleable false negative with withStyledAttributes KTX
Compose Preview
Compose Previews: scrolling stops on headers
Renaming composable should ask to rename preview
Compose Preview Screenshot Testing
com.android.compose.screenshot Gradle plugin uses deprecated APIs
Debugger
Kotlin debugger very slow on 'Debugger: Searching for Kotlin file'
Profilers
"View Live Telemetry" Profiler view shows wrong memory scale
Translations Editor
Editing box in Translation editor get mixed when sorting.
The sub table rows don't line up
Translations Editor language columns get out of sync when using "hidden search" function.