The idea behind Google’s “modern Android development” is, after all, that developers can learn how to write applications for one form factor and then apply that to all of the other ones. Given that Google today announced both its first in-house smartwatch and a new tablet, it’s maybe also no surprise that Android Studio is adding additional support for large-screen devices, including tablets and foldables, as well as wearables. “This is a first big step where we’re bringing the Firebase experience into Android Studio.” “A pain point for a developer today is that while they’re getting really good insights from Crashlytics, to see what errors are happening and the events that led up to them, in order for them to debug and reproduce some of the errors and fix them, they often need to switch to a different tool,” Firebase product lead Francis Ma explained. The idea here, of course, is to allow developers to do more of their work in a single application without having to switch contexts.

Using the new App Quality Insights windows, developers can now see their stack traces right in their IDE and even see which lines of codes are likely to cause a crash. Now, however, developers will be able to do things like add new functions and tweak the user interface and see the effect of those changes in real time.Īlso new in Android Studio is built-in support for Firebase’s Crashlytics, Google’s crash reporting service.

He noted that Android Studio already featured Live Literals, which allowed developers to change small individual values.

Sean McBreen, who leads developer experience for Android at Google, noted that this is something developers have been requesting for a long time, given that it will allow developers to speed up their cycle times without having to wait to test their changes.

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