Android Studio Quail 4 Closed Issues

Android Studio Quail 4 | 2026.1.4 Canary 4

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0-alpha08
Fixed Issues
CPU
tools/base/common/.../SparseArray.java has memory leak
Gemini
Android Studio AI grep toolCall keeps failing to execute.
Shell command is not available in Sandbox of GIAS
S0 CRITICAL: Data Loss - AI Agent executed malformed shell command deleting drive contents
Hangouts
Regression: Chrome crashes on screen sharing through hangouts
Profilers
Tiny fonts in the Profiler (CPU and native memory charts)

Android Studio Quail 4 | 2026.1.4 Canary 3

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0-alpha07
Fixed Issues
APK Viewer
Bug: IDE fails to parse its own APK, to reach the content of the manifest file
Database Inspector
Launching database inspector segfaults in SQLite

Android Studio Quail 4 | 2026.1.4 Canary 2

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0-alpha06

This release includes minor fixes and improvements.

Android Studio Quail 4 | 2026.1.4 Canary 1

Released together with:
  • Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0-alpha05
Fixed Issues
Android Studio
ExtractAnnotations task does not share build cache entries between mac and linux
Gradle Integration
AGP 9.1.0 Circular dependency error between :app:l8DexDesugarLibUiTest and :app:minifyAndroidTestWithR8
Lint
Disable DalvikOverride by default
Lint tasks do not share build cache entries between mac and linux
Navigation Editor
nested navigation graph as starting destination breaks Android Studio Preview
Running Devices
"Hardware Input" emulator option is not persisted across Android Studio restarts