Android Studio

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android development, and includes everything you need to build Android apps.

Features

Visual layout editor

Create complex layouts with ConstraintLayout by adding constraints from each view to other views and guidelines. Then preview your layout on any screen size by selecting one of various device configurations or by simply resizing the preview window.

APK Analyzer

Find opportunities to reduce your Android app size by inspecting the contents of your app APK file, even if it wasn't built with Android Studio. Inspect the manifest file, resources, and DEX files. Compare two APKs to see how your app size changed between app versions.

Instant Run

Push code and resource changes to your app running on a device or emulator and see the changes instantly come to life. Instant Run dramatically speeds up your edit, build, and run cycles, keeping you "in the flow."

Intelligent code editor

Write better code, work faster, and be more productive with an intelligent code editor that provides code completion for Kotlin, Java, and C/C++ languages.

Fast emulator

Install and run your apps faster than with a physical device and simulate different configurations and features, including ARCore, Google's platform for building augmented reality experiences.

Flexible build system

Powered by Gradle, Android Studio's build system allows you to customize your build to generate multiple build variants for different devices from a single project.

Realtime profilers

The built-in profiling tools provide realtime statistics for your app's CPU, memory, and network activity. Identify performance bottlenecks by recording method traces, inspecting the heap and allocations, and see incoming and outgoing network payloads.

Note: the newest versions of Android Studio do not offer a Window 32-bit version. Android Studio 3.6.3 was the last to offer a Windows 32-bit version. You can download it here.

What's New

Complete release notes can be found here.

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1

Android Gradle plugin and Android Studio compatibility

The Android Studio build system is based on Gradle, and the Android Gradle plugin (AGP) adds several features that are specific to building Android apps. The following table lists which version of AGP is required for each version of Android Studio.

Version control system integration in App Quality Insights

App Quality Insights now lets you navigate from a Crashlytics stack trace to the relevant code – at the point in time when the crash happened. AGP attaches git commit hash data to crash reports, which helps Android Studio navigate to your code and show how it was in the version where the issue occurred. When you view a crash report in App Quality Insights, you can choose to navigate to the line of code in your current git checkout or view a diff between the current checkout and the version of your codebase that generated the crash.

Version control system integration in App Quality Insights

App Quality Insights now lets you navigate from a Crashlytics stack trace to the relevant code – at the point in time when the crash happened. AGP attaches git commit hash data to crash reports, which helps Android Studio navigate to your code and show how it was in the version where the issue occurred. When you view a crash report in App Quality Insights, you can choose to navigate to the line of code in your current git checkout or view a diff between the current checkout and the version of your codebase that generated the crash.

View Crashlytics crash variants in App Quality Insights

To help you analyze the root causes of a crash, you can now use App Quality Insights to view events by issue variants, or groups of events that share similar stack traces. To view events in each variant of a crash report, select a variant from the dropdown. To aggregate information for all variants, select All.

Compose UI Check

To help developers build more adaptive and accessible UIs in Jetpack Compose, Android Studio Iguana Canary 5 introduced a new UI Check mode in Compose Preview. This feature works similar to Visual linting and Accessibility checks integrations for views. When you activate Compose UI Check mode, Android Studio automatically audits your Compose UI and check for adaptive and accessibility issues across different screen sizes, such as text stretched on large screens or low color contrast. The mode highlights issues found in different preview configurations and lists them in the problems panel.

Progressive Rendering for Compose Preview

Android Studio Iguana Canary 3 introduces Progressive Rendering in Compose Preview. As part of a continual effort to make previews more performant, now for any preview that is out of view, we purposely decrease their render quality to save memory used.

This feature is developed with the goal to further improve the usability of Previews by being able to handle more previews at the same time in a file. Try it out today and submit your feedback.

Hardware input forwarding

You can now enable transparent forwarding of your workstation hardware inputs, such as the mouse and keyboard, to a connected physical and virtual device. To enable transparent forwarding, click Hardware input for the target device in the Running Devices window.

Manage devices directly from the Running Devices window

You can now start an Android Virtual Device (AVD), or start mirroring a physical device, directly from the Running Devices window by clicking the + icon and selecting a device. To stop the AVD or mirroring of a physical device, close the device tab.

Embedded Layout Inspector

Starting with Android Studio Hedgehog Canary 2, you can run the Layout Inspector directly in the Running Devices tool window. This experimental feature conserves screen real estate and helps organize your UI debugging workflow in a single tool window. In embedded mode you can show a view hierarchy, inspect the properties of each view, and access other common Layout Inspector features. To access the full set of options, you still need to run the Layout Inspector in a standalone window (File > Settings > Experimental > Layout Inspector on Windows or Android Studio > Settings > Experimental > Layout Inspector on macOS).

A limitation of the embedded Layout Inspector is that 3D mode is only available in snapshots.

To help us improve the embedded Layout Inspector, please send us feedback.

New UI improvements

The new UI for Android Studio brings a more modern, cleaner look and feel to the Studio IDE. We've listened to your feedback so far and have fixed issues related to the following features in Android Studio Hedgehog:

• Compact mode
• Support for splitting vertically or horizontally
• Project tabs for macOS
• Fixes to distraction-free mode
• Advanced settings for always showing tool window actions

SDK Upgrade Assistant updates

The SDK Upgrade Assistant provides a step-by-step wizard flow to help you with targetSdkVersion upgrades. Here are the updates to the SDK Upgrade Assistant in Android Studio Hedgehog:

• See breaking changes for upgrading to Android 14
• Added relevance filters so some unnecessary steps are removed
• For certain changes, pinpoint exactly where in code the changes need to be made