Will AS Chipmunk ship with “Gradle Managed Virtual...

# android-studio

[julioromano]

Will AS Chipmunk ship with “Gradle Managed Virtual Devices” ?
Judging from https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features#dolphin-testing it would seem that this feature has been delayed to Dolphin, but indeed it is still present in the recently released Chipmunk RC1.

[Chris Sinco [G]]

It’s actually less dependent on Studio versions and more on AGP versions, since it’s not really integrated into the rest of the IDE yet

[Chris Sinco [G]]

It’s been in the AGP alphas for some time (I think since 7.1 alphas), so you can use it via command line / ./gradlew regardless of Studio version

[julioromano]

So what is mentioned in Dolphin’s release notes is just the IDE integration part?

[Chris Sinco [G]]

There is no IDE integration yet (hoping to work on it soon). What's mentioned is really updates to AGP 7.3, bundled together with the release notes of Dolphin.

[julioromano]

There is still something that feels “off”. The wording in Dolphin’s release notes sounds as if Gradle Managed Virtual Devices is new in Dolphin:

In order to improve consistency, performance, and reliability when using Android Virtual Devices for your automated instrumented tests, we’re introducing Gradle Managed Virtual Devices.

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Agreed it's misleading - we can certainly improve how we communicate updates specifically to AGP