What is new in Android Studio 4.0

Hitesh Dhamshaniya
3 min readOct 24, 2019

First off all, I would like to say thanks to android studio developer who are working hard to make our (android developer) life easy. The good development IDE saves hundreds of hours of developer, so its essential as developer you should know its power.

What I love about new Android studio is

  1. 3D Graph View (inspect element)
  2. Emulator within IDE
  3. Motion View Animation editor
  4. Custom view preview while building it
  5. Single emulator with multiple screen size and different density.

There are many more features, above are some of them I love it at first glance.

3D Graph View (inspect element)

Sometimes its hard to find minor UI glitches while development for that Android studio introduce 3D graph view to inspect the element

Android studio #3D view, #inspect element
3D graph view (inspect element) source dev summit channel

Emulator within IDE

Emulator within IDE android studio
Emulator within IDE Android studio

We can view what we are write in layout file, with layout view option, how prity it is if we can do same for kotlin/java code. So here is a features we have emulator within IDE. Its not just isolation we can install application and check recent changes.

Single emulator with multiple screen size and different density.

Its very boring to start new emulator with different density to check application in multi screen support, Isn’t it cool we can do it with single emulator, here is the feature new android studio emulator you can do that in one.

Multi density emulator within single emulator
Multi density emulator within single emulator

Motion View Editor.

Motion View Animation editor.

There are many more features available in new studio, for that check #AndroidDevSummit. as I got update from there only :)

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Hitesh Dhamshaniya
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