Your feedback helped us iterate and improve features in Android Studio 3.6.

Thank you to those who gave your early feedback in preview releases. We hope all of these features help you be happier and more productive while developing on Android. Finally, we’ve made it easier to optimize your app and find bugs with automatic memory leak detection for Fragments and Activities. Additionally, you no longer have to manually type in GPS coordinates to test location with your app because we now embedded Google Maps right into the Android Emulator extended control panel. Some highlights of Android Studio 3.6 include a new way to quickly design, develop and preview app layouts using XML, with a new Split View in the design editors. We learned a lot from Project Marble and in Android Studio 3.6 we introduce a small set of features, polished existing features, and spent a notable effort addressing bugs and improving underlying performance to ensure we meet the high quality bar we set in the past year. This is our first release after the end of Project Marble, which was focused on making the fundamental features and flows of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) rock-solid.

We are excited to announce the stable release of Android Studio 3.6 with a targeted set of features addressing quality in primarily code editing and debugging use cases.

Posted by Scott Swarthout, Product Manager

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