Thursday, November 5, 2026

Android Studio Rabbit 3 Canary 3 now available

Android Studio Rabbit 3 Canary 3 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. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Rabbit 3, see closed issues.

General fixes and features

Below is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Rabbit 3 Canary 3 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.6.0-alpha03. 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
Ladybug UI is slower than Koala
Make analyzeReleaseR8Config output print out link to the report
IDE Performance Slows to a Crawl During Gradle Build in large project
C++ Build
Prefab does not include prebuilt shared libraries in .aar
Compose Preview
Compose Preview misses previews whose annotation resolves only after the file was first scanned
Enable Pseudolocales in Compose Previews
Gradle Files Editor
False positive warning in build.gradle.kts: Dependency 'null' is declared multiple times when using libs.versions.toml bundles
Import/Sync
"agp-missing-dimension-for-sync-only" is not reported in models as the only item in androidDsl.flavorDimensions
Lint Integration
[AGP 9.x] Broken Gradle cache: Moving sources fails Lint analysis
Multiplatform
R8 build job fails with com.android.kotlin.multiplatform.library
Open Project
Open project in "New Window" prompt shown twice when `.idea` folder is missing