If you are interested you can check out the full release notes on the Android developers website.

This doesn’t include everything, the list is very long. There is an endless list of new features and improvements in Android Studio 3.0 and in the new Gradle plugin. Full details, including other known issues and how to fix them can be found on the Android developers website. There are many other smaller changes which will affect some projects. Note: there might be a version higher than 3.0.0 available, so use the latest one.īuildscript Find out more Ensure it contains the Google Maven repository and version 3 of the Gradle plugin.Enter the latest version of Gradle (above 4.1).If for some reason you need to do this manually: Simply, follow the prompts to have your project updated to version 3 of the Gradle plugin and to use the latest version of Gradle 4. You can continue to use your project as it is, but you will miss out on many of the new features and improvements until you update. Once you launch your project in 3.0 for the first time, you will be told there is a new version of the plugin to update to. How to update Updating the IDE and pluginĪndroid Studio should have prompted you to update to 3.0, if not then go to ‘ Check for updates’ in the menu to do so. There are so many new features and improvements it is just a no brainer! I will go over the new features later on, but for now I will discuss the process of updating and cover the breaking changes in the new Gradle plugin. This means everyone should be updating their IDE to the latest and greatest version.

After a long wait, Android Studio 3.0 has finally been released to the stable channel.

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