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Nitish Kumar Singh
Nitish Kumar Singh

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Installing Android 4.0 Preview

You can install Android Studio 4.0 Preview which is available in canary and dev channel. There are lots of new things in new Android 4.0 which make me excites to install that.

Android Studio 4.0 is in Preview version which means this is not for everyone. Preview are not stable release and it’s not available of stable channel. This is for those, who are interested in try and test new features. Preview are

There are four different channel of android studio release.

  1. Canary
  2. Dev
  3. Beta
  4. Stable

You should not expect any bug-free experience from any channel except stable.

Android Studio take care of these things, if you will move to other channel that will make two android studio available in you Computer. You can use any Android Studio anytime. You need not to uninstall one and install other.

If you want early access to the next version of Android Studio, you don’t have to replace your existing stable version. You can install the Android Studio preview side by side with the stable version and work on the same app projects in both.

APPLE USER

If you have mac here is a video showing, how to install preview version side by side.

WINDOWS USER

If you are windows user then I will be uploading video about that soon. Here are the steps which you need to follow.

1 . Download the Android Studio Preview from this link https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/

  1. Extract the zip

  1. Change the directory name to Android Studio Preview from android-studio

  1. Open the Android Studio Preview Directory and go to bin folder. There you will find studio.exe and studio.64.exe. Depends upon system architecture(32bit or 64bit) open the files.

  1. You can’t open this from windows start search. You can pin this to start or taskbar, which will make you will easier for opening this again and again. You can make shortcut to the desktop also.

LINUX USER

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