The following are new features in Android Studio Panda 1.
Simplified JDK management with Gradle Daemon JVM Criteria
To simplify JDK management for Gradle builds, Android Studio now uses Gradle Daemon JVM criteria by default for new projects. This feature lets Gradle auto-detect compatible JDK for your project installed in your machine to execute Gradle builds or auto-provision the required JDK by downloading it if it cannot be found locally. This feature was stabilized in Gradle 9.2.0.
This simplifies project setup and improves JDK management in several ways:
- Fewer setup errors: You no longer need to have a specific JDK installed to import and build a project, which reduces setup-related errors given invalid JDK selection.
- Consistent builds: JDK selection for Gradle builds is not only consistent across different machines but also between the IDE and command-line, which prevents spawning multiple Gradle Daemons that adversely affect performance.
For existing projects that use a compatible Gradle version, Android Studio shows a notification offering an option to automatically migrate your project's defined Gradle JDK configuration to Daemon JVM criteria, while maintaining the same specifications.
