Now available in a preview release, the Android Studio 4.0 ‘Canary’ upgrade works with the JetPack Compose UI toolkit and improves Java 8 support ...

Google announced that its IDE for building Android apps, Android Studio Flamingo, is now stable.

On the front of tooling, Android Studio Arctic Fox, now in beta, aims to accelerate UI design, extend apps to new devices, and boost developer productivity, says Google.

Jetpack Compose, Google's UI toolkit for helping developers "build beautiful UI across all Android platforms," is available in alpha.