Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google’s Android operating system, built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems. It is a replacement for the Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as the primary IDE for native Android application development.
Android Studio was announced on May 16, 2013, at the Google I/O conference. It was in the early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered the beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.
Android Studio Bumblebee Canary 5 was released and is available for updates via the Canary and Dev channels.
Changelog
Improved deploying from IDE when switching devices with different APIs
When deploying from the IDE, Android Gradle Plugin 7.1.0-alpha05 fixes the issue where switching and redeploying to devices running different API levels would cause some dexing tasks to re-run. Also, when deploying from the IDE, release variants now have their dexing pipeline optimized for the device you are deploying to.
General fixes and features
The bug fixes included in this update can be found here. For details of bugs fixed in each preview release, see previous entries on this blog.
