Android Studio 1.3 Preview NDK support - android-studio

Yesterday Google announced that native code debugging is now possible with this version of Android Studio.
https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/2Gk6yrZKV4X
I've updated to the newest build version "AI-141.1962279" and can't see any possibility of debugging native code.
I've switched to build-tools 23.0-rc1, used gradle plugin 1.3.0-beta1 but cannot set breakpoints in native code or step into JNI calls.
Is it really working?

July 10th update Android Studio Preview with NDK support is available : https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/tech-docs/android-ndk-preview
Android Studio 1.3.0-Preview is indeed available through the Android Studio "Check for updates" menu.
Unfortunately, all C++ features aren't available yet in this preview. They will be available in about 2 weeks.
Source : Google IO dev tools keynote at 35:38

Android Studio 1.3 Beta Available
posted Jun 19, 2015, 11:37 AM by Tor Norbye
Android Studio 1.3 Beta is now available in the beta channel! Sorry, this build does not yet contain the C/C++ support; we are still ironing out a couple of critical issues, but we hope to be ready in the next week or two. Similarly, the vector rasterization support is also still not enabled due to various bugs.
UPDATE:
the 9th of July update contains c++ debug
http://tools.android.com/recent

Even on the Canary Channel, the latest currenlty available build is 1.2.1.1. We will simply have to wait a bit longer for 1.3. The "About Box" in Android Studio also displays the version number; check that to be sure.

"As announced at Google I/O, Android Studio 1.3 will include C/C++ support as well, but that is not included in the first couple of preview builds."
Source:
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio13preview1available

FYI:
NDK support is included from Android Studio 1.3 RC1 on. This includes editing running and debugging C and C++ code. See Android NDK Preview and experimental Gradle plugin guide.

with Android Studio 1.4 release you could debug native JNI code. Your project need to use gradle plugin com.android.model.application though.
After you create a project with JNI code in it, this Android Studio version will create a debug Configuration (mine is called app-native)
once you select this configuration, you could set breakpoint in JNI code
then run your app with android studio [it will download and start app on device]
When JNI code is launched, Android Studio will break right away. You could set more breakpoint at this moment too
Then let debugger "go" [to continue ]
Your breakpoints will get hit
The gradle model plugin examples could be found from googlesamples/android-ndk on github. There is a youtube clip called HelloJniWithAndroidStudio shows how to create a hello-jni with android studio 1.3, most steps still work for 1.4 -- it might help for build.gradle creation.
Different version of gradle mode plugin requires different gradle version:
Gradle-Model-Plugin-version 0.2.0 works with Gradle Version 2.5
Gradle-Model-Plugin-version 0.3.0-alpha3 works with Gradle version 2.6
you could find out what versions are available from the jcenter links mentioned earlier.

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How do I work out what version of IntelliJ a particular version of Android Studio is based on?

How do I work out what version of IntelliJ a particular version of Android Studio is based on? I had a look in the "About Android Studio" window and all I see is the following information:
The first three groups of numbers of the Android Studio build are the version of the IntelliJ Platform build that the Android Studio build is based on: 213.7172.25. The first two digits indicate the year: 2021. The third digit indicates the release number: 3. So it is based on the 2021.3 version of the IntelliJ Platform.
See also: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/build-number-ranges.html#build-number-format
The Android Studio version name (e.g. "2021.3.1") encodes what version of IntelliJ it was based on, as follows:
<Year of IntelliJ Version>.<IntelliJ major version>.<Studio major version>
As described in the "New versioning scheme - Android Studio" section of the Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0 Android Developers Blog post:
The first two number groups represent the version of the final IntellIj platform that a particular Android Studio release is based on (earlier canaries may still be on the earlier version). For this release, this is 2020.3.
The third number group represents the Studio major version, starting at 1 and incrementing by one for every major release.
So "2021.3.1", for example, encodes that this version of Android Studio is based on the "2021.3" version of the IntelliJ platform.

Android Studio very laggy on M1 Apple Silicon chip

I've upgraded to the M1 chip 2020 Macbook Air from a 7th gen. Intel chip pc. Overall, I'm very happy and content with it but when it comes to Android Studio performance, which I use quite often, it is very disappointing I'm sorry to say. When will an Apple Silicon compatible version be available? Are any of you guys have any clue?
I had the exact problem and the solution was as follows:
Open Android Studio, go to Help -> Edit Custom VM Options and add the following lines:
-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
-Dsun.java2d.opengl.fbobject=false
Restart the IDE and wait for the files to sync. Done, IDE running smooth again.
Starting from Android Studio Artic Fox version, they not only changed versioning number style (replaced number system with Year-styling Version names), but also introduced Android Studio for M1/Apple Silicon (arm arch 64bits).
To check if you'r using right Android Studio for your M1, click on 'About Android Studio' and check the runtime, it should show as aarch64 (ie. Arm architecture 64bits). If not, mostly you might be having x86_64 if you installed regular Mac's Android Studio.
To switch to M1's Android Studio,
first exit already installed Android Studio, if it's open.
Go to Finder and under 'Applications', rename 'Android Studio' to preferably 'Android Studio_x86_64'.
Go to Android Studio downloads page (https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads), and download the one tagged as 'Mac (64-bit, ARM)' and unzip and move to 'Applications'.
Click to open 'Android Studio' from the Finder/Applications. You may drag and add it as a Dock shortcut option.
Good thing is that there is no extra installation required and the existing project, (at least for me), opened without any issues.
Android-SDK based and Flutter projects should be good right after switch, NDK not yet there.
AS is now faster again as you are using it as intended on Apple M1's chipset. !
Now Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) is available in Stable Channel. If your version is older than Bumblebee, download it for more performance.
I find out that the link shown by default is for intel architectures.
Automatic update performed by android studio also downloads the intel version even if this download occurs on a Mac with an ARM architecture (M1) .
You should navigate to the download options and choose ARM architecture manually.
You can download version 2021.1.1.22 Bumblebee for MAC ARM (M1) here (Link updated on Mar 7 2022 )
Check Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Beta 3 (have apple silicon support)
https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
use Intellij CE the latest version released on April 6th has native support for m1 and its very fast and intuitive, i've been using it and it's not very different from android studio
Edit: September 21
Download m1 native supported Android studio through https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
Download Mac (Apple silicon)
All the above did not work and my emulator was completely unusable but in my case the following fixed my issues:
Android studio Preferences > Tools > Emulator
Make sure 'Launch in a tool window' is checked
'Wipe Data' on emulator and then relaunch
Having the emulator launch as a separate window caused a huge slowdown but this fixed it immediately

How to configure an iOS Application for Kotlin Multiplatform in Android Studio?

I want to add a Run/Debug Configuration for an iOS Application for a Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile application in Android Studio 4.1.2. However, there seems to be a problem with the configuration for iOS.
In the screenshot below you can see the problem. In the dialog "Run/Debug Configuration" Android Studio complains about
Error: Please specify Xcode project location in xcodeproj property of gradle.properties
Using the "Fix" button does not solve the problem. Android Studio just adds an additional xcodeproj to gradle.properties and the complains about a duplicate parameter.
I also tried different paths (relative and absolute) for xcodeproj. No luck.
If I remember correctly, it used to work out of the box. A new Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile project was automatically configured for Android and iOS. I'm not sure what changed. Probably something was updated.
Is this a bug with the KMM plugin? Or is there something I can do on my system to fix this?
don't do that with Android Studio.
Just open Xcode, click on 'open another project...', locate to the iosApp folder that named it when creating your project on Android Studio.
after that, just click run and have fun.
If the project doesn't run right away even on opening it from Xcode and shows the shared framework is missing, Then try generating the shared framework for iOS platform using terminal. Navigate to the project folder and execute
Command: ./gradlew packForXcode
Now the shared framework should have a xcode-frameworks product and you should be able to build and run the project through Xcode.
I fixed it by downgrading the Kotlin version from 1.4.30 to 1.4.21. You can check this thread here. To downgrade, download the version you want from the plugin store and choose the install plugin from disk as in the picture below
Upgrading Android Studio version to 4.2.1, KMM plugin version to 0.2.6, creating new KMM project with KMM plugin, the problem can be fixed automatically.
If you don't wanna use Xcode:
Look like there is some IDE issues in this versions, one option would be to downgrade the Kotlin version.
What worked for me was to download the latest Canary Android Studio and setup my KMM project there.
Hopefully soon this will be stable for the next versions
Same as here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66941077/3117650
Look like there is some IDE issues in this versions, one option would be to downgrade the Kotlin version.
What worked for me was to download the latest Canary Android Studio and setup my KMM project there.
Hopefully soon this will be stable for the next versions

Why does gradle have 1:1 mapping with android studio versions

Recently I upgraded Android Studio 3.0 Beta 7 to Android Studio 3.0 RC 1. The dependancies in build.gradle also got changed from classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta7' to classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-rc1'
Gradle is a build tool managed by entirely separate organization, separate community. Then how come gradle make their releases with android studio?
In fact, gradle does not have 1:1 mapping with android studio versions. There is no relationship between gradle and android studio versions.
com.android.tools.build:gradle is a gradle plugin for Android developed by Google team.From here, you can see the plugin requires gradle version.For example, if the plugin version is 2.3.0+, you should use gradle whose version is 3.3+.In addition, you can check gradle version in rootProject/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
In your case, you can also downgrade 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta7' to 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-rc1' and it can works. However different plugin version, different performance.

Gradle output is missing in Android Studio 2.2 (latest version)

I updated my Android Studio to latest version 2.2. Then i can't able to see any gradle task output logs.
Below picture is i'm trying to get SHA-1 finger print key from gradle task singingReport .
Note : Previous Android Studio 2.1 is working fine.
Is this Android studio related issue ? Has anyone got similar problem like this ?
I found out there has some changes on gradle version 2.14 (Android studio release note).
Improves build performance by adopting a new default packaging
pipeline which handles zipping, signing, and zipaligning in one task.
You can revert to using the older packaging tools by adding
android.useOldPackaging=true to your gradle.properties file.
Here is complete detail LINK
So now i can able to get the output data by enabling old packing style android.useOldPackaging=true in gradle.properties.

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