

When you run a major version of Android Studio for the first time, it looks for directoriesĬontaining caches, settings, indices, and logs for versions of Android Studio for which aĬorresponding installation can’t be found. Is checked, then select a channel from the drop-down list (see figure 1). Be sure that Automatically check for updates.In the left panel, click Appearance & Behavior >.Open the Preferences window by clickingįile > Settings (on Mac, Android Studio >.To change the update channel for an existing install, proceed as follows: While still using the Stable build for your production Android projects, you

If you'd like to try one of the preview channels (Canary, Dev, or Beta)

Update your IDE and change channelsĪndroid Studio notifies you with a small bubble dialog when an Once you install Android Studio, it's easy to keep the Android Studio IDEĪnd Android SDK tools up to date with automatic updatesĪnd the Android SDK Manager.
