Release Updates

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 3 now available

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 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 Meerkat, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Meerkat, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 3 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-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

Issue #373478537

Unhelpful error ''compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle"

Issue #378314205

Missing "Clean build" in Build menu

C++ Import/Sync

Issue #378453263

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Module source root type com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.facet.ndk.NativeSourceRootType is not registered as JpsModelSerializerExtension

Compose Preview

Issue #240601093

KotlinReflectionNotSupportedError: Kotlin reflection implementation is not found at runtime

Issue #291869276

Preview not working if PreviewParameter is 2nd param of the composable function

Issue #281014894

Kotlin reflect "isData" function returns incorrect value when run in compose IDE preview

Issue #372242698

com.android.tools.idea.rendering.BuildTargetReference: PSI access on EDT

Issue #372241300

com.android.tools.idea.compose.preview.ComposePreviewRepresentation.registerShortcuts called on EDT

Layout Inspector

Issue #375162982

Enable action to show/hide subtree in Embedded LI

Lint

Issue #376498180

kotlin android.os.Handler removeCallbacks Runnable

Issue #378128668

WrongConstant lint on definition instead of usage of constant using shift

Issue #370778975

WrongConstant lint appearing twice

Resources

Issue #379125947

BuildType.initWith() method no longer copying the isShrinkResources property in AGP 8.7

UI Tools

Issue #326091148

Design tools selector incorrectly displayed in files without UI / android reference

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Beta 1 now available

Monday, November 18, 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Beta 1 is now available in the Beta channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta 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 Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Beta 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-beta01. 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

Deployment

Issue #376707217

[Ladybug Canary 9] When running project, AS does not rebuild project anymore resulting in "Error loading build artifacts"

Rendering

Issue #371986109

Android Studio crashes when previewing layout files

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2 now available

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2 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 Meerkat, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Meerkat, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-alpha02. 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

Issue #331016661

Provide an actionable error message when GMD setup task fails with insufficient disk space

Issue #317358817

com.android.settings plugin doesn't recognize targetSdk

Code Editor

Issue #273494380

Request: when the IDE detects an issue with missing permission on a function call, also offer annotation RequiresPermission

Lint

Issue #377642757

Lint fails with InstantiationException without exception message in lint stacktrace

Issue #375352607

False positive lint check android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM is only granted to system apps

Issue #370343337

StringFormatInvalid check should be applied to Compose stringResource method

Issue #374896332

RequiresFeature annotation does not work for Kotlin files

Logcat

Issue #377615325

Improve Match Case in Logcat FIlter

Issue #378058751

Logcat empty

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 1 now available

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 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 Meerkat, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 1 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-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

Compose Preview

Issue #372241623

com.android.tools.idea.projectsystem.ProjectSystemUtil.isAndroidTestFile file access on EDT

Deployment

Issue #376707217

[Ladybug Canary 9] When running project, AS does not rebuild project anymore resulting in "Error loading build artifacts"

Lint

Issue #377475534

Lint crashes with Lint gradle checks

Logcat

Issue #376094912

Android Studio Logcat always clear after device disconnceted

Issue #377615325

Improve Match Case in Logcat FIlter

Running Tests

Issue #375834568

Tweak test result window font

Testing Tools

Issue #332556676

[GMD] ensure adb is executable in setup task.

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 9 now available

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 9 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 Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 9 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-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

APK Viewer

Issue #375158319

APK analyzer should automatically pick up mapping files in app bundles

Dexer (D8)

Issue #362339872

Desugar library 2.1.0 does not work with AGP 8.5.2

Import/Sync

Issue #373462080

"2 files found with path <X>" error not actionable

Issue #364913821

Isolated projects violation in JetGradlePlugin

Layout and Resource Editing

Issue #374790913

Doesn't f the "Toggle tools visibility and position" button in the layout editor since android studio version 2024.

Network Inspector

Issue #374967725

In the Network inspector, the request Body should be scrollable.

Running Devices

Issue #373823902

Bug: updating to Android 15, Android Studio fails to turn off display when mirroring

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Patch 2 now available

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Patch 2 is now available in the Stable channel.If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable 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 Ladybug, see the Android Studio release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug | 2024.2.1 Patch 2 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.7.2. 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

Lint

Issue #370694831

AGP 8.7.0 - Lint False Positive RestrictedApi on NavOptionsBuilder.popUpTo

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #363492038

[R8 8.6.27] Method implementation replaced with `throw null`

Issue #372749733

Default android proguard files throw a warning when used with current Version of R8

Issue #370937458

MissingStartupProfileItemsDiagnostic crashes the Gradle client with an out-of-memory error if the message is too large

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 8 now available

Friday, October 25, 2024

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 8 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 Ladybug Feature Drop, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each previous release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop, see closed issues.General fixes and featuresBelow is a list of general fixes in Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 8 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.8.0-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.