Release updates archive

Android Studio Bumblebee Canary 1 available

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Android Studio Bumblebee Canary 1 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary or Dev channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download here.

General fixes and features

This update includes fixes for the following issues:

Android Gradle Plugin

Build Tools

Issue#186806269: lint.xml file is ignored in AGP 4.2.0-rc01

Build Variants

Issue#184824343: Switching cached variants does not work correctly for Kotlin/Kapt
Issue#174046787: Build variant section is always empty (loading).
Issue#187406162: Composite build root projects are displayed as ":" in build variant selector tool window

Bundletool

Issue#186225291: Release bundletool 1.6.0

Code Analysis

Issue#175930197: Android lint shows false positives of the API level check for fields in an interface that became inherited

Compose Editing

Issue#185962145: Code completion for Modifier class doesn't work at all

Data Binding

Issue#184183388: Studio mistakenly flagging databinding XML attributes as "unknown"
Issue#187340555: Non-deterministic outputs in DataBinding tasks

Deployment

Issue#183581075: Arctic Fox Canary 11 Won't launch emulator when hitting run

Google Cloud

Issue#160510837: Text misalignment in user card in Android Studio

Gradle Files Editor

Issue#79563959: SDK Assignment Property

Import/Sync

Issue#151294238: Android Studio builds with "assemble" rather than ":app:assembleDebug"
Issue#187428282: Manifest index doesn't recognise manifests in generated folder
Issue#151294238: Android Studio builds with "assemble" rather than ":app:assembleDebug"
Issue#173376103: There is no way to search modules in the build variant selection tool window

Layout Editor

Issue#177141136: Bugged System UI option
Issue#152898934: Android studio 4.0 zoom sensitivity

Lint

Issue#186771656:Absolute paths are present in partial results files when LintOptions.absolutePaths is false
Issue#180408990: Potential issue with the RestrictedApi detector in the new lint integration
Issue#185811191: RestrictToDetector throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
Issue#181047988: Issues enabled via lintOptions.enable always have severity WARNING
Issue#180408027: Lint gives failure to analyze when there are only test classes
Issue#184290317: ExifInterfaceDetector Lint Check Refers to Obsolete Class
Issue#187437289: Lint MutatingSharedPrefs false positive
Issue#184095342: Lint log spam: "Incorrect detector reported disabled issue ExtraTranslation"

Lint Integration

Issue#186772704: Move lint resources xml files to task output directory
Issue#186772704: Move lint resources xml files to task output directory

Prefab Integration

Issue#183634734: C/C++: prefabError: Missing argument "PACKAGE_PATH".

Tool Windows

Issue#187415389: Add an indicator with a link when the list of Gradle tasks is not populated

Translations Editor

Issue#153587640: We're getting com.android.tools.idea.resources.base.BasicValueResourceItems out of the resource folder repositories

View Binding

Issue#186306088: AndroidStudio ViewStub in ViewBinding was mistaken for an ViewStubProxy

Android Studio Arctic Fox Beta 1 available

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Android Studio - Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 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 Update (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download here.

SDK Repository source information in App Bundle/APK

AGP now includes information about the repository that your app’s dependencies/SDKs came from inside the App Bundle/APK. This includes the URL of the repository and its type (Maven, Ivy). Repositories with “file://…” URLs are not included in the report.
This information enables Google Play to identify popular libraries so those can be analyzed. The result of that analysis is used to make recommendations on libraries/versions to use and to avoid based on known issues.
You can opt out from including this information by setting the property “android.bundletool.includeRepositoriesInDependencyReport=false” in gradle.properties when building your App Bundle/APK.

Configuring the Build

Known Issues

The developer preview of the newest Wear OS (API level 30) system image has the following known issues:

Switching watch faces via the Wear OS phone app is not available
On-watch Tile management is currently unavailable. In order to preview a Tile you have created in the emulator, you can either set the Tile in the Wear OS phone app or use the wear-tiles-renderer library to preview Tiles in an activity within your app (learn more).
Screen recording through the power menu is not working
Some UI elements are not localized
Some UI elements might not render correctly on non-round emulator configurations.

Android Studio 4.2.1 available

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Android Studio 4.2.1 is now available in the Stable channel.Stable channelHelp > Check for UpdateAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload hereAndroid Studio release notesreporting a bugvote for an existing issueGeneral fixesThis update includes fixes for the following public issues:Build Variants

Issue #184826517: Project structure does not match after switching variants and reopening

Kotlin

Issue #187403740: Android Studio 4.2.0 generates projects with wrong Kotlin version: "1.5.0-release-764"

Project Structure

Issue #184660150: Project Structure dialog in AndroidStudio is unable to display modules that aren't included as text in settings.gradle

Android Gradle Plugin

Issue #181055586: AGP 4.2 Beta 5 breaks Wear unbundled apps

ConstraintLayout 2.1.0 beta 2

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of ConstraintLayout 2.1.0 beta 2, with several fixes.
dependencies { implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.0-beta02'}
What's new in 2.1.0More information about the new features in 2.1.0 can be found on the wiki, the source code is available on https://github.com/androidx/constraintlayout
MotionLayout

A few new features:

OnSwipe enhancement including spring (stiffness, damping, mass etc) & never complete
jumpToState function
ViewTransition downUp mode where on touch Down it plays to 100 and on up reverses to 0

Various fixes, notably:

Fix problem in MotionLayout with vertical scroll (#173)
Perf improvements on nested MotionLayout (#189)
Fast transition with NestedScrollView in MotionLayout (#189)
ConstraintSet gone in MotionLayout (#189)
Support downUp ViewTransitions in MotionLayout (#190)
Fix in ImageFilter when reusing drawables (#192)
Add spring support in MotionLayout (#199)
Performance improvement to CircularFlow (#200)
Fixes in derived constraints / constraint override (#212)

Android Studio 4.2 available in the Stable channel