After a period of preview, the version number of Android studio integrated development environment (IDE) finally officially arrived at 2021.2.1 It is reported that Google has introduced "Bumblebee" and "arctic fox" to us before welcoming the latest stable version code named "chipmunk" Obviously, the Android Studio development team likes to sort by animal names.
(from: Android developers website)
Although Android studio chipmunk has updated the large version of IntelliJ, as a relatively small function update, the main work is to repair more than 175 quality problems.
In addition, the stable version of Android studio 2021.2.1 means that the composite animation preview was officially enabled earlier.
Developers can check and debug various animations of Android jetpack compose with the help of different controls such as pause, loop, fast forward and slow playback.
Currently, this feature only supports animatedvisibility and updatetransition, but over time, Android studio will be able to handle more animation types.
In addition, the updated CPU profiler can display more information about Caton, but only if it is used with Android 12 / API level 31 and later.
There is also a jetifier check in the build analyzer, which can prompt developers whether they can remove jetifier tags to improve performance. It can be seen that in some cases, this will help save 5-10% of the construction time.
(from IntelliJ idea blog)
Incidentally, IntelliJ 2021.2 included with Android studio chipmunk has many new features, including enhanced ide operation, better package search UI, and project scope analysis.
Interested friends can move to Android Developer official website To download and experience Android studio 2021.2.1.