Android Studio Iguana Stable Version 🎉
Hello Android Studio users! We have exciting news: the latest stable release of Android Studio, version 2023.2.1, is finally out! With this release, you’ll encounter a set of new features and improvements. Let’s review right into the new features 🎉
New features
Preview themed app icons
Android Studio lets you preview your themed app icon and test how it adapts to the coloring of the user’s wallpaper. To preview your themed app icon, open the launcher.xml file that defines your icon and then use the System UI Mode selector on the toolbar to switch wallpapers and see how the icon reacts.
Android Studio Bot
Studio Bot is your coding companion for Android development. It’s a conversational experience in Android Studio that helps you be more productive by answering Android development queries. It’s powered by artificial intelligence and can understand natural language, so you can ask development questions in plain English. Studio Bot can help Android developers generate code, find relevant resources, learn best practices, and save time.
Core features
Compose Design Tools
Create dynamic layouts with Jetpack Compose. Then preview your layouts on any screen size and inspect Compose animations using the built-in inspection tools.
Intelligent Code Editor
Write better code, work faster, and be more productive with an intelligent code editor that provides code completion for Kotlin, Java, and C/C++ programing languages. Moreover, when editing Jetpack Compose you can see your code changes reflected immediately with Live Edit.
Flexible Build System
Powered by Gradle, Android Studio’s build system lets you to customize your build to generate multiple build variants for different Android devices from a single project. Then analyze the performance of your builds and understand where potential build issues exist in your project with the Build Analyzer.
Easily Emulate Any Device — Test
The Android Emulator lets you to test your application on a variety of Android devices. Unlock the full potential of your apps by using responsive layouts that adapt to fit phones, tablets, foldables, Wear OS, TV and ChromeOS devices.
Android App Bundle
Find opportunities to optimize your Android app size before publishing by inspecting the contents of your app APK file or Android App Bundle. Inspect the manifest file, resources, and DEX files. Compare two APKs or Android App Bundles to see how your app size changed between app versions.
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