Thursday, October 8, 2026

Android Studio Rabbit 2 Canary 4 now available

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

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Rabbit 2 Canary 4 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.5.0-alpha09. 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
ACP
ACP agent fails to start when the npm registry mirror hasn't synced the version pinned by the ACP registry (ETARGET)
Android Gradle Plugin
Gradle 9.8.0 reports Configuration.setVisible() deprecations with AGP 9.4.1
Compose Preview
Compose Interactive Preview Mode should support focused and hovered states
Gemini
NPE from PathTracker
Import/Sync
TomlDslNameConverter exception: com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.RuntimeExceptionWithAttachments at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ThreadingAssertions.createThreadAccessException
Multiplatform
KMP Android library: resource dirs from sources.res.addStaticSourceDirectory not recognized by IDE
Preview
Compose Preview: StudioModuleClassLoader instances are never released, Metaspace fills until OutOfMemoryError
Running Devices
The physical device screen mirror is showing in very low resolution. I can’t even read the text
Feature request: integrate DPAD (aka Extended Controls) near TV emulator UI
Wear Tooling
Pixel Watch companion crashing after emulator pairing