Android Studio 3.1.4

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.

The Android Studio includes: Android Studio early access preview; all the Android SDK Tools to design, test, debug, and profile your app; the latest Android platform to compile your app; the latest Android system image to run your app in the emulator.

Features of Android Studio:

- Live Layout: WYSIWYG Editor - Live Coding - Real-time App Rendering.
- Developer Console: optimization tips, assistance for translation, referral tracking, campaigning and promotions - Usage Metrics.
- Provision for beta releases and staged rollout.
- Gradle-based build support.
- Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes.
- Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
- Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components.
- A rich layout editor that allows you to drag-and-drop UI components, option to preview layouts on multiple screen configurations.

Changes in recent version (change history)

The bundled Kotlin is now version 1.2.50.
New projects are created with kotlin-stdlib-jdk* artifacts, rather than with kotlin-stdlib-jre* artifacts, which are deprecated.
R8 parsing of ProGuard rules has been improved.
Attempting to run the Kotlin Main class failed with an error: "Error: Could not find or load main class...".
R8 entered an infinite loop while performing certain optimizations.
Using the Rerun failed tests command in the Run window sometimes incorrectly returned the message "No tests were found".
D8 did not correctly handle invoke-virtual instances, causing a crash with a VerifyError: invoke-super/virtual can't be used on private method.
The Data Binding compiler was depending on an old version of com.android.tools:annotations. The compiler now uses tools annotations from the base project when available.
Android Studio crashed during fragment transitions when using profilers.
The debugger crashed when debugging a layout with a text box.
D8 failed to read some ZIP files with special characters.