Posted by Mayank Jain – Product Supervisor, Android Studio
At Google I/O 2024, we introduced an thrilling new set of options and instruments aimed toward making Android improvement quicker and simpler. We additionally shared updates to Android Studio that can allow you to leverage AI and make it simpler so that you can construct top quality apps for Android throughout the Android ecosystem.
You’ll be able to take a look at the What’s new in Android Developer Instruments session at Google I/O 2024 to see a few of the new options in motion or higher but, attempt them out your self by downloading Android Studio Koala 🐨 Function Drop within the preview launch channel. Right here’s a have a look at our bulletins:
Since launching AI options in Android Studio final 12 months, we proceed to evolve our underlying fashions, combine your suggestions, and develop availability to extra international locations and territories to be able to leverage AI in your workflow and change into a extra productive Android app developer. Utilizing the built-in AI privateness controls, you’ll be able to decide in to utilizing the most recent AI characteristic enhancements which can be tailor-made on your Android app undertaking.
Now you can present customized prompts for Gemini in Android Studio to generate code strategies. After you allow Gemini from the View > Device Home windows > Gemini software window, right-click within the code editor and choose Gemini > Rework chosen code from the context menu to see the immediate area. You’ll be able to then immediate Gemini to generate a code suggestion that both provides new code or transforms chosen code. You’ll be able to ask Gemini to simplify advanced code by rewriting it, carry out very particular code transformations resembling “make this code idiomatic,” or generate new capabilities you describe. Android Studio then exhibits you Gemini’s code suggestion as a code diff, to be able to assessment and settle for solely the strategies you need.
Code strategies with Gemini in Android Studio
App High quality Insights in Android Studio seamlessly incorporates each Firebase Crashlytics and Android Vitals information into Android Studio so you’ll be able to entry an important app stability associated info, with out having to change instruments.
Now you can use Gemini in Android Studio to investigate your crash studies, generate insights that are proven within the Gemini software window, present a crash abstract, and when potential advocate subsequent steps, together with pattern code and hyperlinks to related documentation.
You’ll be able to generate all of this info immediately from the App High quality Insights software window in Android Studio after you allow Gemini from View > Device Home windows > Gemini.
Gemini for suggestions on crash studies
Begin prototyping with Gemini fashions in your apps with our new starter app template supplied in Android Studio. On this app template, you’ll be able to concern prompts on to the Gemini API, add picture sources as enter, and show the responses on the display screen. Moreover, use Google AI Studio to craft customized prompts on your app.
When you find yourself able to scale your AI options to manufacturing with Google Cloud infrastructure, you can too entry the highly effective capabilities of Gemini fashions via Vertex AI. That is Google’s fully-managed improvement platform designed for constructing and deploying generative AI. Whether or not you merely want world class inference capabilities, or need to construct end-to-end AI workflows with Vertex, the Gemini API is a superb resolution.
Combine Gemini API into your app with a starter template
We beforehand introduced that Gemini in Android Studio makes use of the Gemini 1.0 Professional mannequin that will help you by answering Android improvement questions, producing code, discovering sources, or explaining greatest practices. On this preview stage of Gemini in Android Studio, we’re providing Gemini 1.0 Professional at no-cost for all customers for now. Gemini 1.0 Professional is a flexible mannequin, making it perfect to scale. Nonetheless we acknowledge that its high quality of responses could also be restricted in some instances. Primarily based in your suggestions, we’re dedicated to bettering the standard for Android improvement, and excited so as to add extra options utilizing Gemini to make your developer expertise much more productive.
Alongside this journey, the Gemini 1.5 Professional mannequin will likely be coming to Android Studio later this 12 months. Outfitted with a Giant Context Window, this mannequin notably results in increased high quality responses, and unlocks use instances like multimodal enter that you simply might need seen within the Google I/O 2024 periods. Keep tuned for extra updates on how one can entry extra succesful fashions in Android Studio.
At present we introduced the final availability of the Firebase Launch Monitoring Dashboard. The Firebase Launch Monitoring Dashboard is a single dashboard powered by Firebase Crashlytics to watch your most up-to-date manufacturing releases of your Android app. It updates in actual time to present you a high-level view of an important launch metrics, like crash-free periods, comparisons, and benchmarking based mostly in your earlier releases.
Android Machine Streaming, powered by Firebase, permits you to securely connect with distant bodily Android gadgets hosted in Google’s information facilities. It’s a handy strategy to check your app towards bodily items of a few of the newest Android gadgets, together with the Google Pixel 8 and eight Professional, Pixel Fold, and extra.
Beginning at present, Android Machine Streaming now contains the next gadgets, along with the portfolio of 20+ system fashions already out there:
Moreover, when you’re new to Firebase, Android Studio routinely creates and units up a no-cost Firebase undertaking for you if you check in to Koala Function Drop to make use of Machine Streaming. So, you may get to streaming the system you want a lot quicker. Study extra about Android Machine Streaming quotas, together with promotional quota for the Firebase Blaze plan tasks out there for a restricted time.
Hook up with the most recent bodily Android gadgets in moments with Android Machine Streaming,
powered by Firebase
Do you know that USB cable bandwidth varies from 480 Mbps (USB-2) to as much as 40,000 Mbps (USB-4)? Android Studio Koala Function Drop now makes it trivial to distinguish low performing USB cables from the excessive performing ones.
While you join an Android system, Android Studio routinely detects the system and USB cable bandwidth and warns you if there’s a mismatch in USB bandwidth.
Observe: USB cable pace detection requires an up to date ADB present in Android SDK Platform Instruments v34+, and is presently out there for macOS and Linux.
It’s now simpler to check in to a number of Google providers with one authentication step. Whether or not you need to use Gemini in Android Studio, Firebase for Android Machine Streaming, Google Play for Android Vitals studies, or all these helpful providers, the brand new check in move makes it simpler to rise up and working. If you happen to’re new to Firebase and need to use Android Machine Streaming, Android Studio routinely creates a undertaking for you, so you’ll be able to rapidly begin streaming an actual bodily Firebase system. With granular permissions scoping, you’ll all the time be accountable for which providers have entry to your account. To get began, simply click on the profile avatar and check in along with your developer account.
A brand new strategy to check in with Google in Android Studio
Utilizing the system UI setting shortcut, now you can effortlessly configure your gadgets to desired settings associated to darkish theme, font measurement, show measurement, app language, and extra, all immediately via the Working Gadgets window. Now you can check and debug your UI seamlessly for any of the potential situations required by your use case.
Machine UI settings shortcuts
The internals of the Android Studio Profiler have been dramatically improved. Standard profiling duties like capturing a system hint with profileable apps now begin as much as 60% quicker.*
We’ve redesigned the profiler to make it simpler to begin the duty you’re curious about, whether or not it’s profiling your app’s CPU, reminiscence, or energy utilization. For instance, initiating a system hint activity to profile and enhance your app’s startup time is built-in proper within the UI as you open the profiler.
Sooner and improved Profiler with a task-centric strategy
*Primarily based on inside information, as examined in April 2024
Android Studio is built-in with the Google Play SDK Index to tell when there are recognized coverage or model points with SDKs utilized by your app. This allows you to replace these dependencies and keep away from points that might stop you from publishing new variations of your app.
Within the Android Studio Koala Function Drop launch, the mixing has been expanded to additionally embrace warnings from the Google Play SDK Console. This provides you an entire view of any potential model or coverage points in your dependencies earlier than submitting your app to the Google Play Console.
Notes from SDK authors are actually additionally displayed immediately in Android Studio to avoid wasting you time.
A warning from the SDK Index with the corresponding SDK creator be aware
Android Studio now has preview help for Tiles. Now you can iterate a lot faster when creating tiles, enabling you to rapidly see what a Tile appears like on completely different configurations while not having to run it on a tool.
Tiles previews utilization for Put on OS apps
To assist simulate actual life situations now you can generate artificial (pretend) information for a Put on OS emulator for well being associated sensors resembling coronary heart price, pace, steps, and extra. You are actually in a position to arrange and carry out testing for a multi-sport coaching session in minutes, end-to-end in Android Studio, with out ever leaving your desk.
Generate artificial sensor information for testing on Put on OS apps
Android Studio Koala Function Drop makes it simple to preview your Jetpack Compose Look widgets (1.1.0-rc01) immediately throughout the IDE. Catch potential UI points and fine-tune your widget’s look early within the improvement course of. Study extra about the way to get began.
Previews for Compose Look widgets
Dwell Edit for Compose can speed up your Compose improvement expertise by routinely deploying code modifications to the working software on an emulator or bodily system. Dwell Edit might help you see the impact of updates to UX components—for instance new composables, modifier updates, and animations—on the general app expertise. As you change into extra acquainted with Dwell Edit you will see many artistic methods it could possibly assist enhance your improvement expertise and productiveness.
In Android Studio Koala Function Drop, Dwell Edit is enabled by default in guide mode and has elevated stability and extra strong change detection, together with help for import statements.
Host-side screenshot testing is a straightforward and highly effective strategy to check UIs and forestall regressions. At present, the primary alpha model of the Compose Preview Screenshot Testing plugin is accessible as a separate plugin, for use along with AGP 8.5.0-beta01 or increased. Add your Compose Previews to the src/essential/screenshotTest folder and run the duty to generate a diff report after UI updates. The generated HTML check report permits you to visually detect any modifications to your app’s UI.
This alpha model of the plugin is designed for fast iteration and suggestions. We plan to merge it again into AGP sooner or later, however for now, this separate plugin lets us experiment and enhance the characteristic rapidly. Study extra about the way to get began.
Android Studio Koala Function Drop contains the IntelliJ 2024.1 platform launch, which comes with some very helpful IDE enhancements:
Learn the detailed IntelliJ launch notes right here.
Android Studio Koala Function Drop (2024.1.2) is now out there within the Android Studio canary channel with
And final, a fast reminder that going ahead, the preliminary Android Studio releases may have the .1 Android Studio main model and introduce the up to date IntelliJ platform model, whereas subsequent Function Drops will enhance the Android main model to .2 and give attention to introducing Android-specific options that allow you to be extra productive for Android app improvement.
Able to attempt the thrilling new options in Android Studio?
You’ll be able to obtain the canary model Android Studio Koala 🐨 Function Drop (2024.1.2) at present to include these new options into your workflow or attempt the secure model Android Studio Jellyfish 🪼. You may also set up them aspect by aspect by following these directions.
As all the time, your suggestions is necessary to us – test recognized points, report bugs, recommend enhancements, and be a part of our vibrant neighborhood on LinkedIn Medium, YouTube, or X. Let’s construct the way forward for Android apps collectively!
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