The latest release of Android Studio brings its IntelliJ IDEA platform up-to-date and introduces a number of features aimed at improving developer experience. Android Studio 4.2 also includes a migration assistant to make it easier for developers to upgrade their projects and take advantage of the latest Android Gradle Plugin API.
The latest IntelliJ IDEA introduced many improvements in the areas of Java support, editor, version control, and third-party framework support.
In particular, IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 fully supports Java 15, released last September, including Records, Sealed Classes, and Text Blocks. It also improves on-the-fly compiler hints and exception analysis, extends variable refactoring, and more. Speaking of version control, IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 enables handling the entire GitHub PR workflow, from browsing and assigning PRs to merging them.
