What's new in Android development tools
summary
Build tools now surface concrete actions: the Build Analyzer auto-suggests upgrading AGP/Kotlin, turning off Jetifier (typical 5–8% incremental build wins, sometimes 40%), and enabling configuration cache; lint is now cacheable and incremental. Gradle-managed devices and Automated Test Device images make instrumentation tests fast and CI-friendly, while baseline profiles (enabled by 6,000 developers) claim up to 40% startup speedups. Studio adds Live Edit for Compose, jank profiling (Android 12), a rewritten Logcat, device mirroring/embedded emulator, Bluetooth emulator work, Visual Lint, and App Insights wired to Crashlytics.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:39Roadmap
- 1:13Android Studio Bumblebee
- 1:55Android Studio Chipmuck Release
- 2:50Build Analyzer
- 5:13Configuration Cache
- 7:18Gradle Managed Devices
- 7:47System Image an Automated Test Device
- 9:56Jetpack Compose
- 10:19Apk Analyzer
- 11:28Profiler
- 12:21Jag Profiling
- 13:37Logcat
- 14:20Filtering
- 15:40Device Management
- 16:57Device Manager
- 17:27Run Configuration Support
- 17:53Wear Toolbar
- 18:10Support for Bluetooth
- 18:55Resizable Emulator
- 19:58Visual Lint
- 22:04Live Edit
- 25:08Compose Preview
- 25:37Multi-Preview Annotation
- 26:06Live Edit to the Preview
- 27:21Interactive Preview
- 28:48Animation Preview
- 30:21App Insights
- 32:50Updated Build Analyzer
- 33:14Baseline Profile Demo
- 34:00Thank You
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