The Android team released version 2.1 of the Android Studio and there are significant changes in the release. Primarily the release now adds support for the Developer Preview of Android N. Android’s Jack compiler is now supported and now opens the door to Java 8 language features without additional tools or resources.
In addition to Android N support, Instant Run has seen further enhancements since the 2.0 release earlier this month. Java applications are now sped up significantly by incremental compilation, meaning that instead of the entire package being compiled only changes to the package will be recompiled. The process of creating a dex file from a class has also been migrated from a separate process and into the Gradle daemon process. Because of this the Android team now is advising developers to ensure a minimum of 2GB RAM is available for Gradle. They are also actively soliciting feedback on the Instant Run feature to help refine and improve it. Hopefully those of us in the community using it are sounding off and helping make these tools as good as they can be!
More details can be found on the Android Studio 2.1 announcement yesterday. Want to download it? Head over to the Android Studio download page and pick up 2.1 today!
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