

Your feedback helped us improve the quality and features in Android Studio 3.2. Thank you to those who gave your early feedback on both the canary and beta releases. By using Android Studio 3.2, you can also develop for the latest technologies ranging from Android Jetpack, to the latest in Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) APIs with Android Slices. On top of these major features, there are 20 new features plus many under-the-hood quality refinements in Android Studio 3.2. For any app developer looking for super- fast boot times, or seeking to run tests in a predictable Android environment, Android Emulator Snapshots is a game changing feature for app development You can resume or boot into your emulator snapshot in under 2 seconds. By using this feature, you can quickly take a snapshot of the current state of your emulator which includes the current state of the screen, apps, and settings. Lastly, you should also check out the new Android Emulator Snapshots feature. Better device battery life is one of the top most user requests, and with the Energy Profiler in Android Studio 3.2, you can do your part in improving device battery life by making sure your app is using the right amount of energy at the right time. This new profiler gives you a set of tools that will help you diagnose and improve the energy impact of your app. Early adopters have already seen between 11% - 64% in app size savings with app bundles over the legacy APK app size.Īnother feature you do not want to miss is the Energy Profiler.

Once you upload your app bundle to Google Play you can distribute smaller, optimized apps to your users. With very minimal work, you can generate an app bundle with Android Studio. Since announcing this update of Android Studio at Google I/O '18, we have refined and polished 20+ new features and focused our efforts on improving the quality for this stable release of Android Studio 3.2.Įvery developer should use Android Studio 3.2 to transition to using an Android App Bundle, the new app publishing format. Android Studio 3.2 is the best way for app developers to cut into the latest Android 9 Pie release and build the new Android App bundle. Today, Android Studio 3.2 is available for download. Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android
