Using Instant Run in Android Studio 2.0 Beta (source: Google) Google claims the new emulator is much faster than the notoriously sluggish and problematic emulator that spins up virtualized devices via the Android Debug Bridge (ADB). The Android Studio 2.0 Beta, meanwhile, features updates to the brand-new emulator that works far faster than the previous version in firing up virtualized device instances for testing code tweaks. 'You can experiment with gesture recognizers, see how UITableView creates and dequeues cells as you scroll, or interact with a complex 3D scene in SceneKit.' 'Any view or view controller that is assigned to the liveView property of the XCPlaygroundPage is automatically made interactive, and since it runs within a playground you get all the usual playground results,' Apple said. The beta 3 also features improvements to the static analyzer, GPU debugger and provisioning.Īn Instant Playground in Xcode (source: Apple)īut it's the interactive playgrounds that gave garnered the most attention.

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