Android Studio 4.0 Canary 2 available

Android Studio 4.0 Canary 2 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

If you have Android Studio set to receive updates on the .

Live Layout Inspector

Debug your layout with an updated Live Layout Inspector that provides complete, real-time insights into your app's UI while it's deployed to a device. Along with many of the same features of the existing Layout Inspector, the Live Layout Inspector also includes:

• A dynamic layout hierarchy that updates as the views on the device change.
• A property values resolution stack to drill into resources right from the view.
• Advanced 3D visualization of an app's view hierarchy at runtime.

For more information, see the : Cannot have Chinese comments in AIDL filesCore IDE

• : Custom emulators outside of AVD Manager not appearing in AS 3.6

Design Tools

• : The databinding annotation processor is injecting an absolute path into KotlinCompile (and maybe AndroidJavaCompile?), which defaults Gradle's remote build cache
• : Execution failed for task ':data:compileDebugLibraryResources'. Android Studio 3.6-beta01
• : Zipflinger creating apk which unzip with empty file permissions

Gradle Sync

• : Refactorings put XML entities in the change

Lint

• : Lint does not realised that TypedArray.recycle() will be done by KTX function of TypedArray.use
• : Creating new project in existing directory no longer possible in 3.6-beta1

Project Structure Dialog

• : Layout editor "ClassFormatError: Code attribute in native or abstract methods"

Strings Editor

• : View Binding: Properties have platform type

For information on new features and changes in all preview builds of Android Studio 4.0, see the . Note that you can also vote for an existing issue to indicate that you are also affected by it.