Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop Closed Issues

Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop | 2025.1.3 Canary 1

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 8.13.0-alpha01
Fixed Issues
Android Gradle Plugin
Run CheckAarMetadataTask in library projects when building an AAR
Fused Library Plugin cannot process resource references from external library
API
Inform Studio about use of legacy variant API
C++ Build
AGP C++: Bump default NDK version. for AGP 9.0
Debugger
Bug: when debugging, there is no "view bitmap" link anymore on Bitmap objects
Gradle Integration
AGP Gradle Managed Devices has concurrency issues when run in parallel
Layout and Resource Editing
Bug: Bitmap preview in debug mode doesn't have correct size
New Code/Templates
Update library dependencies naming
Preview
Android Studio: RAM Usage Increases with Compose Previews and Doesn't Recover After Closing Tabs
Profilers
Go to instance action in heap dump does not work
Rendering
Compose Preview ignores HTML markup in string resources
Running Tests
gRPC message exceeds maximum size when running large test project in a Gradle-managed ATD
Translations Editor
translation editor: support for donottranslate.xml
UI Tools
xml Render problem