What’s New in Android Studio Hedgehog 2023.11? Boost Performance and Battery Life
The Android Studio 2023.11 (Hedgehog) stable release brings performance and battery‑life enhancements, integrated Android Vitals in App Quality Insights, a new Power Profiler, an SDK Upgrade Assistant for Android 14 migration, and various UI and tooling improvements for developers.
Android development team released the latest stable version of Android Studio, 2023.11 (code‑named “Hedgehog”), on November 30.
This release focuses on improving app performance and battery life, simplifying upgrades to newer Android versions, and accelerating development with Jetpack Compose.
Key enhancements include integration of Android Vitals data into App Quality Insights, allowing developers to analyze crash reports directly from Google Play without third‑party tools.
The new Power Profiler provides detailed power‑rail information, offering more accurate measurements than the previous Energy Profiler and helping identify and resolve power‑consumption issues via A/B testing.
The SDK Upgrade Assistant offers a step‑by‑step wizard for updating targetSdkVersion and supports upgrading projects to Android 14 (API level 34) with smarter relevance filters.
Additional updates: IntelliJ platform upgraded to 2023.1, UI improvements, device image enhancements, and an embedded layout inspector.
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