What's new in Android Studio 3.6 for app development?
According to Google, This release in features of Android Studio focuses on improving the quality of code editing and debugging, in which includes a
a small set of new features polished existing features and spent an effort addressing bugs to ensure the high quality of Android App Development.
What’s New in Android Studio 3.6?
There are a variety of new features and improvements in Android Studio 3.6. are as-
1.Split View in Design Editors
A new Split View for the Layout Editor and Navigation Editor make the possible to the design and code views of our UI simultaneously. Split View replaced in the research window and can be configured on a file-by-file basis to save contextual information like the zoom level and design view options. So, we can choose the view that works best for each use case. To enable a split view, click the Split icon in the top-right corner of the editor window.
Android Studio 3.6 allows developers to choose, edit, and apply colors they have defined as the color resources tab. Developers can select and change the values of the color resources. This feature is available in both the design tools and XML editor.
1.Google Maps UI in Android Emulator
The latest version of the Android Emulator includes a direction to visualize the emulated device location tracker. Android Emulator is embedded with a Google Maps UI in the expansion to controls menu so, developers can specify virtual locations and construct virtual routes.
Individual parts can be saved to the device as the virtual location, while routes can be generated through typing in addresses or clicking the two points.
Android Emulator includes initial support in multiple virtual displays. Users interface can be a configuration in multiple displays like the settings menu (Extended Controls > Settings).
1.Leak detection in Memory Profiler
The latest version of Android Studio has the newest capability of Memory Profiler. It can now detect leaked Activity and Fragment instances.
2.In-place updates for imported APKs
Android Studio 3.6 is now automatically detected to changes in the imported APK file and gives you an option to re-import it in-place. When changes to APKs were made, we would have to manually import them again and reattach symbols and open-source servers.
Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) updates
Android Gradle Plugin 3.6 will support the Maven Publish Gradle plugin. The help developers publish build artifacts to the Apache Maven repository. Previously, the Android Gradle plugin has made significant performance improvement for annotation processing/KAPT for large projects — AGP now generates a class of bytecode directly rather than of java files.
Android Studio 3.6 comes shortly after Google’s Android 11 Developer is launched by mobile apps. Developers can now expect novel and rapid ways to design, develop, and application layouts with the help of XML. Android Studio 3.6 also includes the usual high performance to improvements and bug fixes.