Android Studio 3.2.1

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 version is now 1.2.71.
The default build tools version is now 28.0.3.
In the Navigation library, argument types have been renamed from type to argType.
When using the Data Binding library, variable names with underscores were causing compilation errors.
CMake was causing IntelliSense and other CLion features to fail.
Adding a SliceProvider was causing compilation errors in projects that did not use androidx.* libraries.
Some Kotlin unit tests were not being run.
An issue with data binding was causing a PsiInvalidElementAccessException.
elements were sometimes causing the Layout Editor to crash.