Android studio – Top five new features in Android Studio 2024

Hi, here are the top five new features in Android Studio

1. Android Vitals

Android Vitals data from the Google Play console is now available in app quality insights. With Android Vitals, you can see crash insights directly from Google Play, even without adding additional instrumentation to your app. This allows you to quickly understand and resolve them from your editor workflow.

2. The Power Profiler

It helps you visualize the correlation between power consumption and the actions in your app. It provides a per rail accounting of energy draw. Optimizing your app for lower power consumption leads to better battery life and improved end user experience.

3. Running device window

Number three is the enhancements to the running device window. A new all-in-one place to test your app on different devices and inspect them. You can now mirror your physical devices, use the embedded layout inspector, and Gradle Managed devices can now target Firebase Test Lab devices. You can run your tests at scale on a wide range of Android devices, both physical and virtual.

4. New UI features

Number four, and my favorite feature, the new UI. The new UI features a reimagined theme that reduces visual complexity, resulting in a modern and cleaner look and feel. We’ve listened to your feedback and added the most requested features. Compact mode, vertical and horizontal splitting, and project tabs for macOS.

5. upgrade assistant

And finally, we have the upgrade assistant. The SDK upgrade assistant provides a step-by-step wizard flow to help you through the target SDK version upgrade. Using the Android Studio, you can upgrade to Android 14 API level 34 quickly and efficiently.