Thursday, October 22, 2026

Android Studio Rabbit 3 Canary 1 now available

Android Studio Rabbit 3 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 3, see the Android Studio Preview release notes.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Rabbit 3 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.6.0-alpha01. 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
shrinkresources does not work with library apks due to recent aapt2 change
Compose Editing
Compose autocompletion pollutes regular and suspend functions completion
Compose Preview
Show color previews in gutter for Compose hsl colors and Color property references
Gemini
AI Agent times-out on local model connection at 600 seconds. No UI setting to change timeout.
Gradle Integration
AGP 9.4+ managed-device sharding executes the entire test suite on every shard
Layout and Resource Editing
If you click the error output from split view, it should goto xml file
Compose Preview shows outdated resources
Xml preview doesn't render
Split Mode should be saved with the file
Intended "Feature": Missing 'Convert to WebP' Option in Context Menu
Lint
Lint ThreadConstraint partial results are not deterministic across JVMs, which breaks build cache for lintAnalyze
Preview
Unable to obtain test package on Compose Preview in library module
Rendering
[layoutlib] DateUtils.formatElapsedTime returns "(1):(23)" in Compose previews and screenshot tests
UI Tools
Bug lack of focus in code window