So this post induced me to update to Android Studio Ladybug.
And that was a bit of a challenge.
Not only has JetBrains rewritten the entire UI so that it’s a VSCode lookalike and hence I no longer know how to find anything, but Android Studio now ships with JDK 21 by default.
Upon initial load of the FtcRobotController workspace in Android Studio Ladybug, the gradle sync/build fails because of an incompatibility between our version of gradle and Android Studio Ladybug’s bundled JDK.
Android Studio rather unhelpfully suggests you update gradle. We do not suggest users update gradle as FIRST has not tested and evaluated versions beyond 7.4.2. If you do this, we can not provide support for the uprev gradle versions.
I was able to get Ladybug to build and deploy FtcRobotController by doing the following.
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Install the Classic UI plugin so that I get the UI controls I am familiar with back. You may not have to do this, but I found it helpful because diagnosing one problem is easier than diagnosing two problems.
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Install JDK 17 If you did not already have this installed independently of Android Studio. e.g. If you were using Android Studio’s bundled JDK, then when Ladybug is installed Android Studio will unhelpfully overwrite your old bundled JDK version. Note there’s a bug in the Settings → Build Tools → Gradle dialog that may make you think your old version of the JDK is there, but it is not. You must use an unbundled version of the JDK.
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Go to File → Settings and under Build, Execution, Deployment → Gradle use the Add JDK from disk option to select the newly installed JDK 17. In the image below take careful note of the directory paths for the options labelled jbr-17 and jbr-21. Note that they are the same. This is the aforementioned UI bug, and that is Android Studio overwriting your old JDK. In this image you’ll see I’ve selected the JDK that was installed independently.
Once that was done, and the project was resynced, the run configurations appeared as normal and the Control Hub appeared in the target deploy box. I’m connecting over wireless adb, but I presume it would be the same over wired usb.