Monday, December 8, 2025

Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3 Canary 4 now available

Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3 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 3 Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3 Canary 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0-beta04. 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
missingDimensionStrategy prefers a flavor maching its own name even from an unrelated dimension
Build Output
Gradle task `test` prints output in Build window twice
Compose Preview Screenshot Testing
PluginException in ScreenshotTestAnalyticsStartupActivity
Device Manager
Device Manager gets stuck on 'Loading system images...
Fused Library Plugin
Consumer ProGuard rules are not included in fused libraries
Gemini
Support OpenAI Codex model(v1/responses endpoint) as remote model provider.
Gradle
Read android.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.* gradle properties through a provider
Logcat
import or export logcat files not worling
Multiplatform
No annotations.zip is generated from androidx.annotation.IntDef
Resources
Text is shown incorrect languages on Android 15, when setting generateLocaleConfig = true
SDK Manager
Can't install update for Google Play ARM 64 v8a System Image