Android Studio 2023.1.1 stable version released: upgrade IntelliJ underlying platform, improve interface and performance, etc.

IT Home reported on December 1 that according to a press release from the Google Developers Blog, the Android Studio "Hedgehog" stable version (2023.1.1) has been released.

This version mainly updates the underlying IntelliJ platform to 2023.1, improves performance efficiency, optimizes interface logic, makes Jetpack Compose development faster, and adds device mirroring function . You can click here to visit the project address.

IT Home sorts out the specific new features as follows:

App Quality Insights tool improvements

App Quality Insights can now view crash reports from any app published on the Google Play Store, without adding additional instruments to your app.

Developers can quickly view, filter, and sort Android vitals issues, understand crash causes, and jump to code from the App Quality Insights window.

Power Analyzer

The new Power Profiler shows you how power is being used on your device. It displays information about power consumption through a subsystem called "Power Rails," which helps developers visualize how power consumption correlates to the actions happening in their apps.

Officials claim that this direct method of measuring power consumption is different from traditional energy analyzers, which only use models to estimate energy consumption.

After knowing the energy consumption, developers can use A/B testing to compare the power consumption of different algorithms, functions and even different versions of the App, so as to identify and fix power consumption issues in the App. The relevant Power Rails data is available on Pixel 6+ devices running Android 10+.

Android SDK Upgrade Assistant

Android Studio Hedgehog has added the Android SDK Upgrade Assistant, which helps developers upgrade to the target SDK version (Android 14, API level 34). Additional dependency filters have also been added to remove unnecessary steps. In some cases, the upgrade assistant will accurately point out the code location where changes need to be made.

New UI for IDE

The official IDE has launched a new user interface. This redesigned theme claims to reduce visual complexity and provide easier access to basic functions, resulting in a more modern and cleaner interface.

In addition, the official Android Studio has received additional updates, adding compact mode, vertical and horizontal splits, and project tabs for the macOS version.

Device Image

Developers can now mirror their physical Android devices in the Running Devices window in Android Studio.

When mirroring the device's display to Android Studio using ADB over USB or Wi-FI, users can perform common actions directly from Android Studio, such as launching and interacting with apps, rotating the screen, folding and unfolding the phone, adjusting the volume, and more.

Embedded Layout Inspector

Users can run the Layout Inspector directly in the Run Device window. This feature significantly improves the performance of the Layout Inspector, saves screen space, helps organize UI debugging workflows in a single tool window, and increases speed when inspecting layouts.

In embedded mode, developers can display the view hierarchy, inspect each view's properties, navigate to code using Deep Inspection mode, and access other common Layout Inspector features.

Gallery mode for writing previews

Gallery mode is a new mode in Authoring Previews that allows developers to focus on one preview at a time to save rendering resources. Use gallery mode when iterating on the UI, and switch to other modes (grid or list) when you need to see UI variations.