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Android Studio 3.3 Now Available To Download On Stable Channel, New Version Focuses On 'Refinement and Quality'

Posted by msmash on from the IDE-updates dept.

Android Studio 3.3 is now available to download through stable channel, Google said Monday. The top new features of Android Studio 3.3 include a navigation editor, profiler tracking options, improvements on the build system, and lazy task configuration. However, the big focus with the new version was on "refinement and quality," the company said. Further reading: VentureBeat.

14 comments

  1. It's OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    but not as good as eclip's android plug in.

    1. Re: It's OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stable channel, stable channnel, I could swear I saw stable channnel here somewhere. Ah, yes. Bingo! I got Bingo! Oops, carry on. Hey doesnt 1 + 1 equal 2? Why do you have it as 3 on your slide?

  2. Refinement and Quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those are concepts that are anathema to the very ethos of Android.

  3. LOL by sexconker · · Score: 0

    Android?

    Focus, Quality, Refinement

    Choose 0.

  4. Quality of privacy invasion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    *nm*

  5. platform independent by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty good editor considering it works fairly flawlessly on all operating systems. The UI visualizers have gotten pretty good too, considering they also work on all operating systems.

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    1. Re:platform independent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that a sick joke?

      It is only slightly less of a ghastly over-complex mess than Eclipse and that's saying something.

      Apparently only Microsoft knows how to make decent editors. Although Visual Studio itself has exploded in complexity in a bad way, using Android Studio or any hodgepodge Google produces quickly makes any cruft Visual Studio adds look forgivable.

    2. Re: platform independent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah must be the result of free labor

    3. Re:platform independent by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's a pretty good editor considering it works fairly flawlessly on all operating systems. The UI visualizers have gotten pretty good too, considering they also work on all operating systems.

      It should, since it's really just a modified version of IntelliJ IDE which has been around long enough. Between IntelliJ and Eclipse, those two IDEs have pretty much been adopted as the development environments for a ton of embedded stuff, because they're easy to adapt, provide all the editor niceties you expect, and are multiplatform, so rather than back in the old days of having to develop your own or hope to license something like Green Hills environments, you can get a full featured environment for free.

      I will admit though that Android Studio/IntelliJ does feel a lot more polished and integrated than the Eclipse based ones. As someone who routinely works on the Android PDK (the actual Android OS itself), I had to use Android studio to develop some test and library code. It handled all the icky bits for me (though it could use help on creating the JNI bindings I needed - it was possible but wasn't as intuitive as everything else).

    4. Re:platform independent by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      Yeah IntelliJ isn't bad. I used Eclipse for a long time and there were a lot of long time complaints that IntelliJ seemed to listen to.

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    5. Re:platform independent by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      You don't have to use it if you don't want to; just don't go to the design screen and edit the XML directly. Normally I'll create the screen that was and just confirm on the UI. As opposed to XCode, in which you really have no choice if you want to work with a storyboard or an xib.

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    6. Re:platform independent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I take it you've never used Qt Creator then?

    7. Re:platform independent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you call an IDE an "editor" then you're clearly not looking for an IDE.

  6. "Refinement and Quality" by mschaffer · · Score: 1

    Android Studio: Now with 10% less bourgeois bugs.