Release Updates

Emulator 29.1.9 Canary

Friday, August 9, 2019

Restricted VM heap size calculation. 576 MB is now the maximum allowed.

Vulkan: Fixed memory leak from vkAllocateDescriptorSets.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 3 available

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here Fixed issues where IDE hangs or freezes when editing XML filesIssue #133864394file a bug General fixesBinary Intelligence

Issue #137768457: Multiple versions in dependencies.pb file

Gradle

Issue #137729143: Resources overriding strategy between external and local libraries resources is broken

Gradle Sync

Issue #135201784: Studio 3.5 Beta 4 freezes while loading AndroidX project

Lint

Issue #133377376: Android studio ide freezes

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #132897042: NullPointerException in R8 Following Control Flow Obfuscation

Issue #138044583: R8 compat mode removes unused constructor

Issue #135172146: R8 fails with "Undefined value encountered during compilation"

Issue #138668220: R8 fails when excuting task ":wallet:transformClassesAndResourcesWithR8ForRelease"

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Emulator 29.1.8 Canary

Friday, August 2, 2019

Support for a wider range of keyboards. Previously the emulator would only pass a narrow range of keycodes to the guest, corresponding to a US QWERTY keyboard. This made it difficult to use the emulator with non-US keyboards.

To address this, we now pass through all native keycodes from the user's machine and translate them to the relevant Linux keycode.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37142228
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/65338182

Fixed an issue on macOS where Ctrl-C would not kill emulators launched from the command line.

Fixed an issue on macOS where SIGTERM was being ignored (and kill <emu-pid> would not gracefully exit the emulator).

Fixed an issue where numbers entered via numpad entry would not be recognized on the emulator. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/135141621

Fixed crash when opening the Performance Stats window twice.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 2 available

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General fixesAndroidX

Issue #137277710: Update mappings to match https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate

Issue #137073253: Missing exoplayer migration rule in "Migrate to AndroidX"

Apply Changes

Issue #137795791: Exception during delta push: java.io.IOException: write failed: EBADF (Bad file descriptor)

Core IDE

Issue #130315019: StackOverflowError in XmlUtils

Dexer (D8)

Issue #136717060: Support JDK Math library JDK tests

Gradle

Issue #135665414: Aapt exception points to AndroidManifest by mistake

Issue #136987001: Resource error message rewritting not working properly since 3.5.0-alpha09

Issue #137768457: Multiple versions in dependencies.pb file

Issue #130596259: MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org.jacoco.core.jacoco

Gradle Sync

Issue #137160057: Internal sync error when syncing androidx project in Studio 3.5 Beta 5

Jetifier

Issue #133770823: "Migrate to AndroidX" doesn't migrate WorkManager

Metrics

Issue #137662411: do not repeat satisfaction dialog upon user cancel

Project System

Issue #134174287: Exception report: kotlin.KotlinNullPointerException at com.android.tools.idea.gradle.structure.navigation.PsBuildVariantsNavigationPath.queryPlace-ed807e05

Resource Management

Issue #137013090: Tabbed Pane has a background glitch in Linux

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #135627418: Gradle Plugin 3.4.1 crashes app on Android 5 devices with Verifier rejected class due to bad method

Issue #119626580: Two phases in Class staticizer are seeing different IR code.

Issue #138044583: R8 compat mode removes unused constructor

Issue #136195382: java.lang.IllegalAccessError after shrinking code with R8 shrinker wrong method is called

Issue #132897042: NullPointerException in R8 Following Control Flow Obfuscation

Issue #137484867: Converting method to return void does not take local info into account

Issue #136697156: R8 fails with "Attempt to define local of type int as moduleSize" (new in AS 3.5-beta05)

Issue #135172146: R8 fails with "Undefined value encountered during compilation"

Issue #136636007: Remove all .kotlin_metadata from r8 jars

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Emulator 29.1.7 Canary, HAXM 7.5.2 for Windows, 7.5.1 for macOS

Friday, July 26, 2019

Fixed a Unicode path handling issue on Windows where the -kernel command line option did not work with paths that contained non-ASCII characters.

Added a command line option to name a particular run of the emulator with an ID. In the CI use case, this can make it easier to distinguish emulators and find out which one has been running on which ADB port, even when running multiple instances of the same AVD (via -read-only). Usage:

emulator -avd <avd-name> -id <id> [other-args]
Retrieve the ID via adb -s <device-serial> emu avd id

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/cbspgk/bluescreen_when_starting_android_q_emulator/

Emulator 29.1.6 Canary

Friday, July 19, 2019

Fixed issue where virtual scene camera would show a black screen.

Update on BSOD on Windows with Q Beta 5 system images

We have re-landed Q Beta 5 to macOS and Linux only.
Intel has put up a tentative HAXM fix for the BSOD issue on Windows. If you are experiencing issues with BSOD on Q images:

Install HAXM 7.5.2 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KB2e_en9ERmw9BAprLZXmoWE6XqAYTJR
Install Q Beta 5 if not installed already: Replace current Q Google APIs system image (in $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/system-images/android-29/google_apis/x86 with the x86/ folder in this link: http://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-29_r06.zip)
Reboot the Q AVD

Once we have verified the fix, we will release HAXM 7.5.2 to all channels, then Q Beta 5 to Windows.

Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 1 available

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Beta channelHelp > Check for UpdatesAndroid Studio > Check for Updatesdownload it here General fixesGradle

Issue #130740393: Error running unit tests in Android Studio 3.4

Issue #133092984: DataBinding modules cause MergeDebugResources to run

Issue #126775254: aapt2FromMaven task input prevents build cache from being shared across different OSes

Issue #136150634: transformClassesWithMergeClassesForRelease fails with duplicate entry: META-INF/versions/9/module-info.class

Issue #130102823: StackOverflowError with DefaultPropertyState.getOrNull

Kotlin

Issue #128835109: resources.srcDirs = ['src'] option in gradle leakes .kt source code in artifact (APK)

Lint

Issue #131844902: DefaultJavaEvaluator.getProject sometimes returning /media for /media2/player/...MediaPlayer.java

Navigation

Issue #133280833: <nav-graph> element can only be included in application manifest

Shrinker (R8)

Issue #132549918: Using -keepparameternames has no effect

Issue #134304597: VerifyError: kotlinx/coroutines/AbstractCoroutine at API 17, 18

Issue #135210786: NoClassDefFoundError in runtime on API 19 and below when using AGP 3.5.0-beta04

Issue #134858535: Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesAndResourcesWithR8ForDebug'.

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Emulator 29.1.9 Canary

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