Android Studio 3.2 Canary, which Google recommends as the IDE for building Android 9 Pie applications and Android App Bundles, shipped in September 2018.

How to create Android App Bundles Android Studio has been updated to handle this new build process and can now build a signed Android App Bundle ready for upload to Google Play.

Google has announced the first Android Studio 3.0 preview build via its Android Developers blog, featuring more than 20 improvements.