Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android
We are excited to announce that Android Studio 4.2 is now available to download in the stable release channel. The focus areas for this release is an upgraded IntelliJ platform and a handful of new features centered around improving your productivity as an Android app developer.
We know sometimes upgrading your app project to the latest version can be complicated. To address this, we have a new app project upgrade assistant in Android Studio 4.2 that makes it easier to migrate your project and to take advantage of the latest Android Gradle Plugin APIs. Additionally, we have added a whole range of enhancements to the existing features like the Database Inspector, System Trace, SafeArgs support, Apply Changes, the new project wizard and more. If you use these features and you are looking for the next stable version of Android Studio, you should download Android Studio 4.2 today!
Check out the list of new features in Android Studio 4.2 below, organized by key developer flows.
Develop
Safe Args Support
New Project Wizard & New Module Wizard
Debug
Query History with the Database Inspector
./sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/retrace
Build
AGP Upgrade Assistant
// build.gradle.kts android { ... signingConfigs { config { ... enableV3Signing(true) enableV4Signing(true) } } }
APK v3 and APK v4 singing support
Test
Multiple Device Deployment
Profile
Profiler with new System Trace Events Table
To recap, Android Studio 4.2 includes these new enhancements & features:
Check out the Android Studio release notes, Android Gradle plugin release notes, and the Android Emulator release notes for more details.
Download
Download the latest version of Android Studio 4.2 from the download page. If you are using a previous release of Android Studio, you can simply update to the latest version of Android Studio. If you want to maintain a stable version of Android Studio, you can run the stable release version and canary release versions of Android Studio Arctic Fox at the same time. Learn more.
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