Android Studio 4.0 has been launched by Google. It gives a host of new features to the Android App Developers.
As per the company’s blog post, this release has quite a few features like a new Motion Editor – powerful interface for creating, editing, and previewing MotionLayout animations, a Build Analyzer to analyse slower build time and support for Java 8 Language APIs.
Snapshot of the all the features are as below as per the developer’s blog.
Summary:
Design
- Motion Editor: a simple interface for creating, editing, and previewing MotionLayout animations
- Upgraded Layout Inspector: a real-time & more intuitive debugging experience
- Layout Validation: compare your UI across multiple screen dimensions
Develop & Profile
- CPU Profiler update: improvements to make the UI more intuitive to navigate and the data easier to understand
- R8 rules update: smart editor features for your code shrinker rules, such as syntax highlighting, completion, and error checking
- IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 platform update with performance and quality improvements
- Live Template update: Android-specific live templates for your Kotlin code
- Clangd support: Clangd and Clang-Tidy turned on by default
Build
- Build Analyzer: understand and address bottlenecks in your build
- Java 8 language support update: APIs you can use regardless of your app’s minimum API level
- Feature-on-feature dependencies: define dependencies between Dynamic Feature modules
- buildFeatures DSL: enable or disable discrete build features, such as Data Binding
- Kotlin DSL: essential support for Kotlin DSL script files
Android Developers can download the new Android Studio 4.0 at the official page.
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