Android studio Electric Eel is now stable. Here are the top features you need to you.
- New Logcat: The new version of Logcat makes it easier to parse, query and keep track of logs. This is the most significant update since its introduction and provides more functionality and query syntax for developers to use.
- Device mirroring: Allows developers to mirror their device in the Running Devices window. This feature allows to execute common actions such rotating the screen, changing the volume, or locking/unlocking the device from the IDE.
- Live updates to your Compose Preview: Allows developers to see immediate updates to their Preview changes as they make them
- Compose Preview with different devices: Allows developers to edit the device parameter of the Preview annotation, enabling them to see how the composable will look on different devices.
- Resizable Emulator: Allows developers to test their app on multiple screen sizes with a single resizable emulator, saving compute resources and memory.
- SDK insights: Allows developers to view dependency information from the Google Play SDK Index and receive Lint warnings for outdated dependencies during development, enabling them to discover and update issues before publishing to the Play Console.
- App Quality Insights from Firebase Crashlytics: Allows developers to view and act on app crash data from Firebase Crashlytics directly in the IDE, with features such as highlighting lines of code related to Crashlytics events, viewing summary statistics and stack traces, filtering events, and getting browser links to the Crashlytics dashboard.
- Desktop Android Virtual Device: Allows developers to test their apps on desktop devices such as Chromebooks by using a Desktop Android Virtual Device (AVD), enabling them to see how the app behaves on large screen devices.
- Layout Inspector recomposition highlights: Recompositions are highlighted to help developers identify where in the UI their composables are recomposing. A gradient overlay is used in the image section of the Layout Inspector, with stronger colors showing which composable is recomposing at a higher rate and.
Which feature do you use the most? Let us know in the comment section.
