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Android Studio Hedgehog includes the IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1 updates, which improve the Studio IDE experience.


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App Quality Insights now includes Android vitals data, so you can more easily access core metrics collected by Google Play and improve your user experience. Use Android vitals to address issues related to app stability, performance, battery usage, and more to help users and maximize the discoverability of your app on Google Play.




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Starting in Android Studio Hedgehog, the Power Profiler shows power consumption on devices. You can view this new data in the On Device Power Rails Monitor (ODPM). It segments the information by subsystems called "Power Rails." The System Trace records and displays power consumption data.

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Android Studio HedgeHog introduces the new App Links Assistant that provides a comprehensive overview of the deep links setup in your app. The Assistant displays all existing deep links in the app's Manifest.xml file, validates whether the configuration for those deep links is correct, and provides an easy and quick way to automatically fix the misconfigurations.


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Live Edit includes a new shortcut for pushing edits in manual mode (Push Edits Manually): Control+\\ (Command+\\ for macOS). Manual mode is helpful in situations where you want to have precise control over when updates are deployed to the running application. For example, if you're making a large scale change in a file and don't want any intermediate state to be reflected on the device.


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androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling-preview 1.6.0-alpha01+ introduces new Multipreview API templates: @PreviewScreenSizes, @PreviewFontScales, @PreviewLightDark, and @PreviewDynamicColors, so that with one single annotation, you can preview your Compose UI in common scenarios.


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Android Studio Hedgehog introduces a new Gallery in Compose Preview, which lets you focus on one preview at a time and save resources on rendering. We recommend using Gallery Mode when you need to iterate on your app's UI and switching to other modes, for example Grid or List, when you need to see UI variants.


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When parts of your Compose UI recompose unexpectedly, it's sometimes difficult to understand why. Now, when setting a breakpoint on a composable function, the debugger lists the parameters of the composable and their state, so you can more easily identify what changes might have caused the recomposition.


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Mirror your physical device to execute common actions such as starting apps and interacting with them, rotating the screen, folding and unfolding the phone, changing the volume, and more—right from the Studio IDE. Device mirroring is always enabled. You can start and stop mirroring using the Running Devices window or the Device Manager.


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You can now enable transparent forwarding of your workstation hardware inputs, such as the mouse and keyboard, to a connected physical and virtual device.


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You can now start and stop virtual devices, or the mirroring of physical devices, directly from the Running Devices window.


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Starting with Android Studio Hedgehog Canary 2, you can run the Layout Inspector directly in the Running Devices tool window. This experimental feature conserves screen real estate and helps organize your UI debugging workflow in a single tool window. In embedded mode you can show a view hierarchy, inspect the properties of each view, and access other common Layout Inspector features.




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We've listened to your feedback on the new Android Studio UI and have included numerous improvements and bug fixes in Android Studio Hedgehog. The improvements include enhancements for compact mode, window splitting, and more.


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Starting with Android Studio Hedgehog, the SDK Upgrade Assistant includes support for upgrading to Android 14. In addition, the SDK Upgrade Assistant has more relevance filters for removing unnecessary steps and the ability to pinpoint where exactly some code changes need to be made.


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You can run your automated instrumented tests at scale on Firebase Test Lab devices when using Gradle Managed Devices. Test Lab lets you test on a wide range of physical and virtual Android devices and configurations. Now the build system can fully manage these Test Lab devices based on the configurations in your project's Gradle files.


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You can disable IDE optimization for the target device API level. To turn this feature off, go to File > Settings > Experimental (Android Studio > Settings > Experimental on macOS) and uncheck Optimize build for target device API level only.


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Build Analyzer informs you if antivirus software might be impacting your build performance. This can happen if antivirus software, such as Windows Defender, is doing real-time scanning of directories used by Gradle. Build Analyzer recommends a list of directories to exclude from active scanning and, if possible, it offers a link to add them to the Windows Defender folder exclusion list.


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Android Studio Hedgehog and higher don't support importing Eclipse ADT projects. You can still open these projects, but they are no longer recognized as Android projects. If you need to import this type of project you can use an earlier version of Android Studio.


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Android Studio Hedgehog includes a new macro, #GRADLE_LOCAL_JAVA_HOME, to specify the JDK path. This makes it safer and easier to specify the Java home path used for the Gradle daemon (background process) execution for your project.


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Last updated 11/23/2023

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