The Stable channel has been updated to 128.0.6613.119/.120 for Windows, Mac and 128.0.6613.119 for Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in theLog.
The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 128.0.6613.120for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes 4 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.
[$7000][357391257] High CVE-2024-8362: Use after free in WebAudio. Reported by Cassidy Kim(@cassidy6564) on 2024-08-05
[TBD][358485426] High CVE-2024-7970: Out of bounds write in V8. Reported by Cassidy Kim(@cassidy6564) on 2024-08-09
We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[364012614] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives
Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
The AppSheet Admin Console is now available in public preview
For the first time, Workspace admins will have visibility into the users, apps and licenses associated with their AppSheet users via the AppSheet Admin Console. Previously, these advanced monitoring capabilities were limited to AppSheet Enterprise customers. Now all Workspace admins with the AppSheet service privilege can use this data to gain a deeper understanding about how their users are interacting with AppSheet. With the AppSheet Admin Console, you can view all the app users across any of your organization’s apps, review the most popular apps and creators, and more. Admins can also take actions like exporting a list of accounts, users, apps, and licenses for their organization or set the role of users in their organization. Eligible customers can access the AppSheet Admin Console using this direct link or clicking out from Apps > Google Workspace > Settings for AppSheet in the Workspace Admin Console. | The open beta for the AppSheet Admin Console is available now for AppSheet Enterprise customers and AppSheet Core entitled customers. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about using the AppSheet Admin Console.
Google Workspace for Education users can now set and share personal pronouns and name pronunciation
Google Workspace for Education admins of K-12 and higher education institutions can now give their students the option to set their pronouns from their Google Account at aboutme.google.com. This option is OFF by default and can be enabled for all users or a subset of them (such as for a specific location or class). User-defined pronouns will appear in personal information cards displayed when hovering over or clicking someone’s profile photo across Workspace apps like Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Chat, and Drive. Pronouns will also appear in Google Contacts, accessed by clicking “Open detailed view” from the personal information cards. | Pronouns are rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | The ability to add name pronunciation will be available by the end of Q3, 2024. | Available to all Google Workspace for Education customers. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about allowing Directory users to change their pronouns and changing pronouns in your Google Account settings.
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
Automate your workflows on Google Chat with IFTTT and UKG Flow integrations
Following the announcement at Google Cloud Next 2024, we’re excited to introduce Google Chat integrations with IFTTT and UKG Flow. | Learn more about Chat integrations with IFTTT and UKG Flow.
Picture-in-picture in Google Meet will now open automatically when switching tabs
Picture-in-picture mode will now automatically trigger when you switch tabs during a meeting. | Learn more about picture-in-picture in Meet.
Business Starter customers will soon have access to shared drives
Business Starter will officially have access to shared drives starting mid-September. When shared drives are made available to Business Starter customers, all users will be able to create shared drives by default. If this default behavior is undesired, admins can update their settings before Business Starter users gain access to the feature starting on September 23, 2024. | Learn more about shared drives for Business Starter.
Reply to emails in Gmail faster on Android devices
You can now reply to emails directly from the bottom of the conversation, without opening a new screen, making it easier to reference the email you’re replying to. | Learn more about replying to emails on Android.
Upload additional types of documents to Gemini (gemini.google.com) for insights and analysis
Google Workspace users with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education or Education Premium license can now upload a variety of files from Google Drive or locally from your device into Gemini. | Learn more about document upload with Gemini.
“Take notes for me” in Google Meet is now available
“Take notes for me” is an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes, allowing you to focus on discussion, collaboration, and presentation during your meetings. | Learn more about “Take notes for me”
Google Meet provides consolidated email for all meeting artifacts
Currently, Google Meet sends an email for each type of meeting artifact initiated in a meeting, including meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, Gemini notes with “take notes for me,” live streams and more. Going forward, you’ll receive one email consolidating these artifacts. | Learn more about Meet’s meeting artifacts.
Customize Gemini (gemini.google.com) for your specific needs with Gems
Gems are now available to Google Workspace customers with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, or Education Premium add-on. | Learn more about Gems.
Gmail Q&A: A new way of searching your inbox with Gemini on Android devices
Gmail Q&A feature is rolling out now on Android devices and coming soon to iOS. | Learn more about Gemini in Gmail.
Additional data protection in Gemini (gemini.google.com) when using a school account is now available
Earlier this year, we brought Gemini for Google Workspace to education communities with two new paid add-ons. At that time, we announced that educators and students 18 years and older who did not have a Gemini Education license would soon get added data protection when using Gemini (gemini.google.com) as an Additional Service with their school accounts. Beginning this week, that added data protection is now available — free of charge. | Learn more about data protection in Gemini.
The Dev channel has been updated to 130.0.6683.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Earlier this year, we brought Gemini for Google Workspace to education communities with two new paid add-ons. At that time, we announced that educators and students 18 years and older who did not have a Gemini Education license would soon get added data protection when using Gemini (gemini.google.com) as an Additional Service with their school accounts. Coming soon, we will have Gemini as an Additional Service with these added data protections available to teen students as well.
Beginning today, that added data protection is now available — free of charge. With added data protection, the data you share is only used for responses to your prompts and is not used to improve Gemini or other generative AI models. Added data protection is available to Google Workspace for Education users in every language and country where they can access Gemini.
If you use gemini.google.com with a school account without a Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium license, it is covered under the Google Terms of Service as an Additional Service. This is available to users 18 years and older.
Over the recent years, AVIF has become one of the most commonly used image formats on the web.
We're happy to announce that AVIF is now a supported file type
in Google Search, for Google Images as well as any place that uses images in Google Search. You
don't need to do anything special to have your AVIF files indexed by Google.
RecurrentGemma architecture showcases a hybrid model that mixes gated linear recurrences with local sliding window attention; a highly valuable feature when you're concerned about exhausting your LLM's context window.
Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Product Manager, Android Studio
Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Koala Feature Drop (2024.1.2)!🐨
Earlier this year, we announced that every Android Studio animal version will have two releases: a platform release and a feature drop release. These more frequent updates get important IntelliJ updates to you faster, while we focus on quality and polish for Android-specific features. The Koala platform release was launched in June. Today, we'll walk through the feature drop release.
Get access to cutting-edge features like new devices in device streaming, Compose previews for Glance widgets, USB cable speed detection, support for Android 15 in the Android SDK Upgrade Assistant, and much more. All of these new features are designed to accelerate your Android app development workflow in building next-generation and high-quality apps.
Read on to learn more about all the updates, quality improvements, and new features across your key workflows in Android Studio Koala Feature Drop, and download the latest stable version today to try them out!
Develop
Android Device Streaming: more devices and improved sign-up
Android Device Streaming now includes the following devices, in addition to the portfolio of 20+ device models already available:
Google Pixel 9
Google Pixel 9 Pro
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold
Google Pixel 8a
Samsung Galaxy Fold5
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
Additionally, if you're new to Firebase, Android Studio automatically creates and sets up a no-cost Firebase project for you when you sign-in to Android Studio to use Device Streaming. As a result, you can get to streaming the device you need much faster. Learn more about Android Device Streaming quotas, including promotional quota for the Firebase Blaze plan projects available for a limited time.
As we announced at Google I/O 2024, we’re further expanding the selection of devices available by working with partners, such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and OnePlus, to allow you to connect to devices hosted in their device labs. To learn more and enroll in the upcoming Early Access Preview, see the official blog post.
Device Streaming
Target Android 15 using Android SDK Upgrade Assistant
The Android SDK Upgrade Assistant provides a step-by-step wizard to help you upgrade your targetSdkVersion. It also pulls documentation directly into Android Studio, saving you time and effort. Android Studio Koala Feature Drop adds support for upgrading projects to Android 15 (API Level 35).
Android SDK Upgrade Assistant
Updated sign-in flow to Google services
It's now easier to sign in to multiple Google services with one authentication step. Whether you use Gemini in Android Studio, Firebase for Android Device Streaming, Crashlytics in App Quality Insights, Google Play for Android Vitals reports, or some combination of these services, the new sign-in flow makes it easier to get up and running. With granular permissions scoping, you'll always be in control of which services have access to your account. To get started, click the profile avatar on the top right corner and sign-in with your developer account.
Updated sign-in wizard
Wear OS Tile Preview Panel
You can now view snapshots of your Wear OS app's tiles by including version 1.4 of the Jetpack Tiles library. This preview panel is particularly useful if your tile's appearance changes based on certain conditions, such as content that depends on the device's display size, or a sports event reaching halftime.
Wear OS Tile Preview Panel
Compose Glance widget previews
Android Studio Koala Feature Drop makes it easy to preview your Jetpack Compose Glance widgets directly within the IDE. You can even use multi-previews to preview at standard widget sizes and their designed widget breakpoints (sample code). Catch potential UI issues and fine-tune your widget's appearance early in the development process or while debugging any UI issues. Learn more.
Previews for Compose Glance widgets
Live Edit (Compose)
Live Edit is now enabled in manual mode by default. It has increased stability and more robust change detection, including support for import statements. Note that starting with Android Studio Koala Feature Drop, the default shortcut to push your changes in manual mode has been updated to Control+' (Command+' on macOS). You can customize the shortcut on the Keymap settings page.
Making an update with Live Edit in manual mode
Debug
USB Cable Speed Detection
Android Studio now detects when it's possible to connect your Android device with a faster USB cable and suggests an upgrade that maximizes your device capabilities. Using an appropriate USB cable optimizes app installation time and minimizes latency when using tools such as the Android Studio debugger. USB cable speed detection is currently available for macOS and Linux. Learn more.
While most readily available USB cables are still the older USB 2.0 standard, the majority of modern devices support the significantly faster USB 3.0. Upgrading to a USB 3.0 cable can potentially increase your data transfer speeds up to 10x.
USB cable speed detection
Device UI Shortcuts
To help you build and debug your UI, we've introduced Device UI shortcuts button action in the Running Devices tool window in Android Studio. Use the shortcuts to view the effect of common UI settings such as dark theme, font size, screen size, app language and TalkBack. You can use the shortcuts with emulators, mirrored physical devices, and devices streamed from Firebase Test Lab. Device UI shortcuts are available for devices running API level 33 or higher. Learn more.
Device UI Setting Shortcuts in Running Device Window
Pixel 8a in Emulator
The Android Emulator (35.1+) now supports the Pixel 8a in the stable channel, enabling you to test your apps on more Pixel devices without needing a physical device. Find the new Pixel 8a in the phone category when you create a new virtual device. Additionally, you can find Pixel 9 devices in the canary release channel of Android Studio.
Pixel 8a in Emulator
Optimize
Faster and improved Profiler with a task-centric approach
Popular performance optimization tasks like capturing a system trace with profileable apps now start up to 60% faster*. The Profiler's task-centric redesign also makes it easier to start the task you're interested in, whether it's profiling your app's CPU, memory, or power usage. For example, you can start a system trace task to profile and improve your app's startup time right from the UI as soon as you open the Profiler.
Faster and improved Profiler with a task-centric approach
* Based on internal data, as tested in April 2024
Quality improvements
Beyond new features, we also continue to improve the overall quality and stability of Android Studio. In fact, the Android Studio team addressed over 520 bugs during the Koala Feature Drop development cycle.
IntelliJ platform update
Android Studio Koala Feature Drop (2024.1.2) includes the IntelliJ 2024.1 platform release, which has many new features such as comprehensive support for the latest Java** 22 features, an improved terminal, and sticky lines in the editor to simplify working with large files and exploring new codebases.
The improved terminal features a fresh new look, with commands separated into distinct blocks, along with an expanded set of features, such as smooth navigation between blocks, command completion, and easy access to the command history. Learn more.
Sticky lines in the editor keeps key structural elements, like the beginnings of classes or methods, pinned to the top of the editor as you scroll and provides an option to promptly navigate through the code by clicking on a pinned line. Learn more.
Basic IDE functionalities like code highlighting and completion now work for Java and Kotlin during project indexing, which should enhance your startup experience.
To recap, Android Studio Koala Feature Drop includes the following enhancements and features:
Develop
Android Device Streaming: more devices and improved sign-up
Target Android 15 using Android SDK Upgrade Assistant
Updated sign-in flow to Google services
Wear OS Tile Preview Panel
Compose Glance widget previews
Live Edit (Compose)
Debug
USB Cable Speed Detection
Device UI Settings Picker
Pixel 8a in Emulator
Optimize
New Task UX for Profilers
Quality Improvements
520+ bugs addressed
IntelliJ Platform Update
Improved terminal
Sticky lines in the editor to simplify working with large codebases
Enhanced startup experience
Getting Started
Ready for next-level Android development? Download Android Studio Koala Feature Drop and unlock these cutting-edge features today! As always, your feedback is important to us – check known issues, report bugs, suggest improvements, and be part of our vibrant community on LinkedIn, Medium, YouTube, or X. Let's build the future of Android apps together!
**Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
The Beta channel has been updated to 129.0.6668.22 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
As Election Day nears, here’s an update on our latest initiatives, tools and safeguards, building on our existing efforts in the U.S.
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