This includes visual linting, navigation, and Compose related issues.

Universal Problems Panel: We have consolidated all the problems reported by various tools within Android Studio into the new Problems panel. Visual Linting for Views: New for XML layouts, Visual linting now runs in the background to check for issues across different form factors, detecting problems such as overlapping or non-visible elements on a given device configuration. When your code contains compilation errors during editing, Previews are temporarily paused, and then resumed again when the errors are fixed. If your code change was incompatible, Previews will show a “Needs Rebuild” status to indicate needing a full build.

In Electric Eel, Previews update automatically after you make compatible code changes in the same file, allowing you to iterate on your UI faster.

Compose Preview updates automatically – In earlier versions of Android Studio, you had to manually refresh Compose Previews after making changes.

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