Starting today, you lot tin download Android Studio 3.2 Beta. Previewed at Google I/O 2018, the latest release of the official Android IDE is focused on helping onboard you lot to all the novel features launched around Google I/O -- Android JetPack, Android P Developer Preview, together with the novel Android App Bundle format. There are also several other exciting novel features included inwards Android Studio 3.2 to accelerate your app development, such equally Emulator Snapshots together with the Energy Profiler.
As the usage of Android Studio has grown inwards the 3.5 years since version 1.0, nosotros receive got also give-up the ghost increasingly obsessed amongst quality. We give-up the ghost on to invest inwards character because nosotros know that millions of app developers pass almost everyday inwards Android Studio together with demand a reliable laid of tools. Stability, orbit times, together with other character piece of job volition survive the primary focus for our adjacent release i time nosotros complete Android Studio 3.2. We also did non desire to wait, thence nosotros receive got made checkins to address memory leaks together with functioning issues equally good equally fixed to a greater extent than than 450 bugs. Thank you lot for the continued feedback together with delight maintain it coming thence nosotros tin focus on the areas you lot tending close most inwards the adjacent version of Android Studio. If desire to endeavor out the latest features, together with assess the improvements inwards quality, you lot tin download Android Studio on the beta release channel.
What is within of Android Studio 3.2
Building on the canary release of Android Studio 3.2, the Beta release includes:
- Android App Bundle back upward - The Android App Bundle is a novel publishing format that uses the Google Play's Dynamic Delivery, which delivers a smaller, optimized APK that alone contains the resources needed for a specific device. Without whatever code changes, you lot tin accept payoff of the app size savings of an Android App Bundle yesteryear navigating to Build → Build Bundle / APK or Build → Generate Signed Bundle / APK.
Build Android App Bundle
- Emulator Snapshots - With Android Studio 3.2 you lot tin orbit snapshots at whatever emulator country together with and then inaugural of all a snapshot inwards nether 2 seconds. You tin pre-configure an Android Virtual Device (AVD) snapshot amongst the apps, information together with settings that you lot desire together with and then repeatedly give-up the ghost dorsum to the same snapshot. Learn more.
Android Emulator Snapshots
- Energy Profiler - The novel Energy Profiler inwards the functioning profiler suite tin assist you lot empathize the unloose energy touching of your app on an Android device. You tin forthwith visualize the estimated unloose energy usage of organization components, addition inspect background events that may contribute to battery drain.
Energy Profiler
Check out the total write-up of all the major features organized yesteryear evolution menstruum listed below together with on the canary blog:
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Sessions at Google I/O '18
With the release of Android Studio 3.2 at Google I/O '18, the Android Studio squad also presented a serial of sessions close Android Studio. Watch the next videos to encounter the latest features inwards activity together with to larn tips & tricks on how to usage Android Studio:
- What's novel inwards Android evolution tools
An overview of all the recent features inwards Android Studio for Android app developers. The session includes demos together with a tour de strength presentation of relevant features that volition accelerate developers' workflow on the latest Android APIs.
- What's novel amongst the Android orbit system
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 deep dive into the novel features of the Android orbit system.
- What's novel amongst ConstraintLayout together with Android Studio pattern tools
This session covers the novel features inwards ConstraintLayout 2.0, equally good equally the latest functionality added inwards Android Studio pattern tools, highlighting how to effectively accept payoff of them for designing, prototyping, together with edifice a graphical user interface application.
- Improve app functioning amongst Android Studio Profilers
This beak demonstrates how to diagnose together with troubleshoot functioning problems amongst your app using Android Studio Profilers. It covers examples of how to usage the CPU, memory, network profilers, together with highlight what's new.
- Best practices using compilers inwards Android Studio
This session discusses in-depth what is happening to the diverse compilers used inwards Android: Java 8 linguistic communication characteristic desugaring, the novel dexer (D8) together with shrinker (R8), together with piece of job done on the Kotlin compiler for Android use.
- Android Jetpack: manage UI navigation amongst Navigation Controller
This session discusses how to usage the Navigation Editor inwards Android Studio, XML or the Java API to define your navigation graph, together with how that simplifies navigating around your app together with treatment deep linking.
Download & Feedback
Download the latest version of Android Studio 3.2 from the beta channel download page. If you lot are using a previous versions of Android Studio, brand certain you lot update to Android Studio Beta 1 or higher. If you lot also desire to maintain a stable version of Android Studio, you lot tin run the stable release version together with beta release versions of Android Studio at the same time. Learn more.
To usage the mentioned Android Emulator features brand certain you lot are running at to the lowest degree Android Emulator v27.3+ downloaded via the Android Studio SDK Manager.
Please note, to ensure nosotros maintain production quality, some of the features you lot saw inwards the canary channel similar Navigation Editor are non enabled yesteryear default. To plough on canary release channel features give-up the ghost to File → Settings → Experimental → Editor → Enable Navigation Editor.
If you lot abide by a põrnikas or issue, experience gratis to file an issue. Connect amongst us -- the Android Studio evolution squad ‐ on our Google+ page or on Twitter.
