<p>Google announced quite a lot of new features, APIs and new devices at Google I/O 2022. One of the main focus of the developer keynote was for Android Studio. We’ve created a comprehensive list of everything new announced for Android Studio at Google I/O 2022. Here’s what’s new at Android Studio Electric Eel Canary:</p>
<h2>Better stability</h2>
<p>Of course with every version there is some kind of work to improve the stability. This year, Google claims that they’ve fixed over 1600 bugs, 20 UI hangs and 12 memory leaks.</p>
<h2>Run Jetpack Benchmark</h2>
<p>Microbenchmark is a Jetpack library that measures the execution time of your Kotlin or Java code. It’s especially good for code that runs repeatedly like RecyclerView scrolling, data manipulation and such.</p>
<h2>Macrobenchmark</h2>
<p>Macrobenchmark library is used for testing larger use-cases of your application, such as application startup and complex UI manipulations. It can be run on CI systems as well.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2836 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark.png" alt="Macrobenchmark" width="3456" height="1876" srcset="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark.png 3456w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-300x163.png 300w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-1030x559.png 1030w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-768x417.png 768w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-1536x834.png 1536w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-2048x1112.png 2048w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-1500x814.png 1500w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/macrobenchmark-705x383.png 705w" sizes="(max-width: 3456px) 100vw, 3456px" /></p>
<h2>Baseline Profilers</h2>
<p>Adding Baseline Profilers to your app lets Android to improve startup speed, method call performance and make your app faster in general.</p>
<h2>Crashlytics in Android Studio</h2>
<p>Firebase Crashlytics will directly display its reports in Android Studio. You can access the reports through App Quality Insights window. You can see where your app crashed, and go to the line responsible for that crash in Android Studio.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2838 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image6-optimized.gif" alt="Crashlytics in Android Studio" width="1280" height="720" /></p>
<h2>Resizable Emulators</h2>
<p>A new Android emulator type, resizable is available. Instead of running apps for various sized screen devices, you can test your apps by resizing the emulator window to desired size.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2828 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2.png" alt="Resizable Emulators" width="1053" height="225" srcset="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2.png 1053w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2-300x64.png 300w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2-1030x220.png 1030w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2-768x164.png 768w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image1-2-705x151.png 705w" sizes="(max-width: 1053px) 100vw, 1053px" /></p>
<h2>Live Edit</h2>
<p>If you’re building using Jetpack Compose, you can see the results of your code changes in your Compose Preview, running emulators and connected physical devices. This feature is experimental, so look out for bugs.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2829 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image8.gif" alt="Live Edit" width="1600" height="1104" /></p>
<h2>Animation Preview</h2>
<p>Previewing animation required a lot of building and running the app. Those who tweak animations to perfect parameters know that most of the time is spent on waiting for the changes to build. New Android Studio adds previewing animations for Jetpack Compose. You can see a timeline of animations running and tweak them.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2829 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image10.gif" alt="Animation Preview" width="1502" height="1163" /></p>
<h2>Dependency Insights</h2>
<p>You can view popular dependencies and how they are used by other developers from Android Studio. If a dependency is marked as outdated, Android Studio will warn you to update to a supported version. More info on Google Play SDK Index, check out its developer page: <a class="dynamiclink" href="https://goo.gle/play-sdk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">https://goo.gle/play-sdk</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-2827 size-full" src="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9.png" alt="Dependency Insights" width="1323" height="201" srcset="https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9.png 1323w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9-300x46.png 300w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9-1030x156.png 1030w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9-768x117.png 768w, https://ac.appcircle.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image9-705x107.png 705w" sizes="(max-width: 1323px) 100vw, 1323px" /></p>
<p>There are many more improvements to Android Studio Electric Eel like wearOS emulators, wearOS device connect, and so on. For a full list of improvements, check out Android Developers Blog page: <a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/05/whats-new-in-android-studio.html">https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/05/whats-new-in-android-studio.html</a></p>


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