Posted by Juan Sebastian Oviedo, Senior Product Manager
Today at Google I/O 2022, we announced an exciting set of new features available in Android Studio Dolphin Beta and Electric Eel Canary, both available for download. You told us that you want to be more productive while creating Android apps, so we focused on improvements that make the development experience faster and more informative.
In the Android Studio Dolphin release you will find the following features and improvements that you can start using in the Beta channel, which is close to stable quality:
For even more cutting edge features, you can take a sneak peek at the Android Studio Electric Eel release in the Canary channel:
These features will be promoted to more stable channels once we have your feedback and make improvements, so please try them out.
To see all the new features in action, watch the What’s new in Android Developer Tools session.
Below is a list of key new features and improvements in Android Studio Dolphin:
Compose Animation Coordination
Multipreview annotations
Compose Recomposition Counts
Wear OS Emulator Pairing Assistant
Wear OS Emulator Side Toolbar
New Wear OS Run/Debug configuration types
Logcat V2
Gradle Managed Devices
Below is a list of key new features and improvements in Android Studio Electric Eel:
Live Edit on emulator
Live Edit on Preview
Google Play SDK Index insights
App Quality Insights from Firebase Crashlytics
Resizable Emulator
Visual Linting
Pairing two Android Emulators using Emulated Bluetooth
Device Mirroring
To recap, these new features and improvements are available in the Android Studio Dolphin Beta, near stable quality:
Jetpack Compose
Wear OS
Development tools
These brand new features and improvements are available in the Android Studio Electric Eel Canary:
Google Play and Firebase
Large Screens
Android Studio Dolphin Beta and Electric Eel Canary are both available for download. You can install them side by side with the current stable version of Android Studio following these instructions. The Beta release is near stable release quality, but bugs might still exist, so, if you do find an issue, please let us know so we can work to fix it. Likewise, if you find an issue or have feedback for the features in the Canary release, please let us know.
We really appreciate your feedback on issues and feature requests. You can follow us—the Android Studio development team—on Twitter and on Medium.
Check out the preview release notes for more details.
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