"Messages" tool window is gone
When I updated Android Studio to the most recent beta I got Messages tool window gone. Yes, I can find build errors in "ab" view mode of "Build" tool window, but it's littered with other output of Gradle and tools, and not comfortable to use.
Knowing that Google are happy to mess anything they touching to, I also checked this on IDEA 2017.3.2 – the same behavior.
I know that this window is not permanent and shows only if has anything to show, I've read several questions about this window here, on Youtrack, and on StackOverflow – all of them are outdated and/or irrelevant.
The only track of this issue I found at Google Issue Tracker – https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70923234 – and here Google employees told that it's expected behavior.
Could somebody clarify on that, please?
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Does it happen in Android projects only?
This may be related to the builds delegated to Gradle: http://mrhaki.blogspot.ru/2016/11/gradle-goodness-delegate-build-and-run.html.
Yeah, I didn't paid attention to this before – the issue is only on Android projects :-( "Delegate" option is turned off in IDEA
And I just found that in IDEA all the errors/warning is visible in the tree mode of "Build" tool window, whilst Android Studio doesn't show them. Maybe Android team had a plan to replace Messages window with this tree view, but something went wrong: