With Android Studio 3.1, in addition to performance profiling your Kotlin and Java language app code, you can now profile your C++ code in your app.
Replacing the legacy DX compiler, D8 dexing is an under the hood APK compilation step that makes your app size smaller, enables accurate step debugging, and many times leads to faster builds.
If any of these features sound exciting or you are looking for the next stable version of Android Studio, you should download Android Studio 3.1 today!Ĭheck out the list of new features in Android Studio 3.1 below, organized by key developer flows.
We also added better lint support for your Kotlin code, and accelerated your testing with an updated Android Emulator with Quick Boot. For those of you with a Room or SQLite database in their your app, we added better code editor support to aid in your SQL table and query creation statements. New to Android Studio 3.1 is a C++ performance profiler to help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in your app code. In addition to many underlying quality changes, we added several new features into Android Studio 3.1 that you should integrate into your development flow. The focus areas for this release are around product quality and app development productivity. We are excited to announce that Android Studio 3.1 is now available to download in the stable release channel. Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android