Android Studio Arctic Fox released
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 Arctic Fox is released.
Changelog
Updated version numbering for Android Gradle plugin
We have changed the version numbering for Android Gradle plugin (AGP) to more closely match the underlying Gradle build tool. Therefore, AGP 7.0 is the next release after AGP 4.2.
For more details, see Versioning changes in the AGP release notes.
Android Gradle plugin 7.
0. 0 The latest version of the Android Gradle plugin includes many updates. To learn more, read the full Android Gradle plugin release notes.
Unit tests now uses Gradle test runner
To improve overall consistency of test executions, Android Studio now uses Gradle to run all unit tests by default. In many cases, this change will not affect your testing workflow in the IDE.
For example, when you click the Run command in the context menu (visible when you right-click on a test class) or its corresponding gutter action
, Android Studio will use the Gradle run configuration by default to run unit tests.
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, Android Studio will use the Gradle run configuration by default to run unit tests.
