Following its announcement last November, Android Studio 2.0 has been released into the stable channel, with a new emulator, Instant Run building, and more.

Intel has released an x86 image for Android 4.0, which should speed up the PC-based Android emulator for developers.

With version 2.0, as Google’s group product manager for Android Studio Stephanie Cuthbertson told me, the team wanted to build on the foundation it laid over the last two years and focus on speed.