I use Android Studio solely for building my app. Traditionally, I've been 
aggressive about my updates to Android Studio because gradle allows me to 
divorce my build+release process from the IDE. 

The latests Android Studio Beta release 0.8.+ is clearly aimed at helping 
developers out with Android-L. There are some changes that make this a 
little difficult now: 

1. minsdk required to be 20. This has been discussed largely and i found a 
thread 
http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/297xli/howto_use_the_v21_support_libs_on_older_versions/
 that 
I believe, would help me to target older versions.
2. I currently use the v13 support library (since i support a minsdk 
version of 14+), so this cuts down on a lot of additional stuff that i 
don't require from the v4 & v7 support libraries (hello 64k method limit). 
But there doesn't exist a v13 library compatible with Android-L (yet)

So I guess, here's my question: Is the expectation that we wait until 
Android-L is released, before we update Android Studio, or can we expect to 
safely update to Android Studio 0.8.+ right now and expect to continue and 
release our apps in the interim to the play store targeting KitKat.

Cheers.


P.S: The demos for AS from Google I/O look really snazzy and the temptation 
to update is very strong.

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