AndroidStudio crash on macOS Big Sur beta

Question

After update to last beta release of macOS Big (11.0 Beta (20A5395g)) - Android Studio (4.1) keeps shutting because [NSOpenGLContext setView:] must be called from the main thread. This happens very often so I have to open AS every 5 minutes again and again

Also there are other issue - ANR (or very laggy functioning) that I was tolerating so far - related to opened sub-windows like

• open ADV manager
• creating new project - choosing activity for application
• importing project from VCS.

BigSur beta is SO UNSTABLE so it drive me crazy. Do You recommend any AndroidStudio or macOS canary/beta channels that fix those issues?

EDIT 17.11.2020

Looks like after 2 installation of 11.0.1 problem is fixed

Answer 1

The IDE freezing when opening tabs is due to macOS's default settings. Go to System Preferences > General > Prefer tabs and select never.

Alternatively, you can run this command in Terminal if you want to keep tabs for all other apps except Android Studio (the ideal solution):

defaults write com.google.android.studio AppleWindowTabbingMode manual

Answer 2

Any chance that you have external monitors connected? I'm experiencing the same issue and the crash happens whenever any Android Studio window is in the external monitors. This is a known and resolved JDK bug (see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2790). I know of two workarounds, but they are both not ideal:

1. Don't connect any external monitors, or...
2. Change your JDK runtime to a version with the bug resolved:
   1. You will need to install a plugin to allow you to choose your runtime, see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544879-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under.
   2. Download and install a working runtime from https://adoptopenjdk.net/nightly.html?variant=openjdk11&jvmVariant=hotspot (i.e. version 11.0.9 works, no crashes but you lose some functionality such as accessing Preferences and Layout Editor)
   3. From Android Studio, choose the new runtime (Help > Find Action... > Choose Runtime...)

Unfortunately I have yet to find a runtime that doesn't compromise some kind of functionality in AS.