📚 Android Studio 4.2 Beta 3 available

Android Studio 4.2 Beta 3 is now available in the Beta channel.

If you have Android Studio set up to receive updates on the Beta channel, you can get the update by choosing Help > Check for Updates (Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise, you can download it here.

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 4.2, see the Android Studio Preview release notes. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.

We greatly appreciate your bug reports, which help us to make Android Studio better. If you encounter a problem, let us know by reporting a bug. Note that you can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that you are also affected by it.

General Fixes

• Android Studio needs to update the leanback template

• If the schema tree only contains Databases with no schema, nothing is rendered
• AdbCommandRejectedException thrown when device is unplugged while entering offline mode

• [Android Studio Preview Crash Report][4.1.0.10] java.lang.IllegalStateException at com.android.tools.idea.emulator.EmulatorToolWindowManager.getToolWindow-81716942

• UI freeze in ResourceRepositoryManager.computeLibraryResourceMap

• Exception report: java.lang.AssertionError at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneInteraction.commit-0e67c1d5

• Mouse events contain wrong coordinates for devices with landscape default orientation

• New "Import Gradle or Eclipse project" not displaying main imported module

• Remember Passwords functionality is not working while Generating Signed Apk
• Gradle version quickfixes for older versions results in an incorrect state.
• 20 second freeze from org.jetbrains.android.exportSignedPackage.ExportSignedPackageWizard.<init>

• Test duration is showing incorrect when we choose Instrumentation test result from Test History

• Issue #174785779: RepositoryLoader.loadFromResFolder: Control-flow exceptions (like ProcessCanceledException) should never be logged

• Issue #173911569: gradle 4.1.0 no longer embedding wear apk in mobile apk.