Thursday, April 9, 2026

Android Studio Panda 4 Canary 4 now available

Android Studio Panda 4 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 Panda 4, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Panda 4, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Panda 4 Canary 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.2.0-alpha08. 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
Allow higher compileSdk for tests than main
Compose Preview Screenshot Testing
Screenshot Plugin: Layoutlib's isolated classloader prevents JVM coverage agents from instrumenting composable classes
Screenshot testing: validate incorrectly succeeds with stale screenshot when test throws exception
Lint
AGP 9 Lint reports WrongConstant when using nested IntDef constants