
Android Things Support - A new set of templates in the New Project wizard and the New Module wizard to develop for the Android Things platform.
XML Fonts & Downloadable Fonts - If you target Android Oreo (API Level 26 and higher) for your Android app, you can now add custom fonts & downloadable fonts using XML. Support for VectorDrawable layers is new for this release.
Adaptive Icon Wizard - The new wizard creates a set of launcher icon assets and provides previews of how your adaptive icon will look with different launcher screen icon masks. Layout Editor - The component tree in the Layout Editor has with better drag-and-drop view insertions, and a new error panel. Java 8 Language features - To update your project to support the new Java 8 Language toolchain, simply update your Source and Target compatibility levels to 1.8 in the Project Structure dialog. Kotlin Programming Language - Kotlin is now officially supported in Android Studio, including features likes code completion and syntax highlighting. Join today’s leading executives at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit virtually on November 9. If you are already using Android Studio, you can get the latest version in the navigation menu (Help => Check for Update on Windows/Linux and Android Studio => Check for Updates on OS X). You can download the new version of Android Studio for Windows, Mac, and Linux now directly from /studio. The company today also started rolling out the first developer preview of Android 8.1 Oreo with Android Go optimizations, a new Neural Networks API, and a few smaller enhancements in response to feedback. Google today launched Android Studio 3.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with new features like app profiling tools to quickly diagnose performance issues, support for the Kotlin programming language, and new wizards for accelerating development using the latest Android Oreo APIs.
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