Thursday, September 17, 2026

Android Studio Rabbit 2 Canary 1 now available

Android Studio Rabbit 2 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 Rabbit 2, see the Android Studio Preview release notes.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Rabbit 2 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.5.0-alpha06. 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 CLI
android studio find-usages: a bare symbol resolves to a single declaration with no caller control, causing both over-reporting (common names) and silent under-reporting (name collisions)
android-cli leaves accumulating lib-downloader_jni-*.dll files in %TEMP% on Windows
Android Gradle Plugin
KMP AndroidX sources are not downloaded without a separate non-KMP module
The Configuration.setVisible(boolean) method has been deprecated
AGP 9.3.0's new optimization { enable = true } DSL does not set isMinifyEnabled in the ApplicationVariant object
Code Editor
Android Studio freezes every time
Compose Preview
Compose device previews don't work in studio
Gemini
An internal error has occurred in Agent
Gradle Integration
AGP 9.4.0: running a single method of a JUnit4 Parameterized instrumented test from Android Studio runs 0 tests (tests_regex "\[.*\]" loses backslashes in device shell)
connectedAndroidTest always fails on `adb connect host:port` devices — device id is percent-encoded before the per-device pass/fail lookup
Preview
UI check for wear configurations uses desktop sizes
UI Tools
Bug: Scroll wheel does not zoom in VectorDrawable preview