Android Studio Meerkat Closed Issues

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 4

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-alpha04
Fixed Issues
Device Manager
Request: bring back ability to remove skin of AVD of emulators
Layout Inspector
Enable action to show/hide subtree in Embedded LI
Profilers
About profiler
Profiler sorts durations alphabetically instead of underlying value
Room SQL
Window functions for SQLite cannot be parsed

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 3

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-alpha03
Fixed Issues
Android Gradle Plugin
Unhelpful error ''compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle"
Missing "Clean build" in Build menu
C++ Import/Sync
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Module source root type com.android.tools.idea.gradle.project.facet.ndk.NativeSourceRootType is not registered as JpsModelSerializerExtension
Compose Preview
KotlinReflectionNotSupportedError: Kotlin reflection implementation is not found at runtime
Preview not working if PreviewParameter is 2nd param of the composable function
Kotlin reflect "isData" function returns incorrect value when run in compose IDE preview
com.android.tools.idea.rendering.BuildTargetReference: PSI access on EDT
com.android.tools.idea.compose.preview.ComposePreviewRepresentation.registerShortcuts called on EDT
Layout Inspector
Enable action to show/hide subtree in Embedded LI
Lint
kotlin android.os.Handler removeCallbacks Runnable
WrongConstant lint on definition instead of usage of constant using shift
WrongConstant lint appearing twice
Resources
BuildType.initWith() method no longer copying the isShrinkResources property in AGP 8.7
UI Tools
Design tools selector incorrectly displayed in files without UI / android reference

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 2

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-alpha02
Fixed Issues
Android Gradle Plugin
Provide an actionable error message when GMD setup task fails with insufficient disk space
com.android.settings plugin doesn't recognize targetSdk
Code Editor
Request: when the IDE detects an issue with missing permission on a function call, also offer annotation RequiresPermission
Lint
Lint fails with InstantiationException without exception message in lint stacktrace
False positive lint check android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM is only granted to system apps
StringFormatInvalid check should be applied to Compose stringResource method
RequiresFeature annotation does not work for Kotlin files
Logcat
Improve Match Case in Logcat FIlter
Logcat empty

Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Canary 1

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 8.9.0-alpha01
Fixed Issues
Compose Preview
com.android.tools.idea.projectsystem.ProjectSystemUtil.isAndroidTestFile file access on EDT
Deployment
[Ladybug Canary 9] When running project, AS does not rebuild project anymore resulting in "Error loading build artifacts"
Lint
Lint crashes with Lint gradle checks
Logcat
Android Studio Logcat always clear after device disconnceted
Improve Match Case in Logcat FIlter
Running Tests
Tweak test result window font
Testing Tools
[GMD] ensure adb is executable in setup task.