How is Adroid Studio 3.0 improved?
Most notable new features include full support for the statically typed Kotlin language running on top of the JVM. The new Android Studio allows you to work with Java and Kotlin in a single project. An interesting feature is the built-in direct code conversion from Java to Kotlin.
Other news
Another major new feature is a group of tools used to optimize and tune performance, memory and internet usage:
- CPU Profiler – used to analyze process activity in real time. It allows you to monitor process load during testing.
- Memory Profiler – used to detect poor phone memory usage that can lead to application crashes.
- Network Profiler – offers the ability to monitor network activity of the application, analyze individual requests.
The new IDE also includes the ability to analyze and debug application APKs without the need to have a compiled project. The ability to analyze APKs will help developers optimize the size of the resulting APK file, for example by reducing the size of images and other files.
Latest of all, the new Android Studio extends support for the Java 8 platform, providing an improved UI editor. It also introduces support for adaptive icons in Android 8 and brings the ability to work with fonts in XML format.