Thursday, November 6, 2025

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 Canary 4 now available

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 Canary 4 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 2 Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 Canary 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0-alpha14. 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
Built-in Kotlin support in AGP should not synchronize with the Kotlin sourcesets
Fail android library publishing if consumer keep file contains -dontobfuscate
No Options to Print Mapping for Optimized Resources
Make it an error to call finalizeDsl after this phase has been passed
AGP initializes jetifier config even when jetifier is disabled
built in kotlin does not add kotlinStdlib as a compile time dependency when `kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency` is true to module and pom files
Build Variant
"Select Build Variant..." does nothing
Code Editor
Autocomplete quality regression after removal of ML completion settings in Otter 2025.2.1
Fused Library Plugin
Consumer ProGuard rules are not included in fused libraries
Fused library does not handle desugared library requirements
Lint Integration
Lint automatically uses latest installed SDK despite compileSdk, doesn't register as task input and breaks caching
Multiplatform
[Android-kmp plugin] Change android target's platform type to "androidJvm"
Preview
Unnecessary rendering notifications
Shrinker (R8)
R8 optimized resource shrinking silently fails if using final resource IDs