I want to Uninstall Android Studio, but it's not showing in the control panel programs and features, and I can't find the uninstaller. Does anyone know how to uninstall it?
or reinstalling it for the matter?
I was running into the same issue, tried removing the folder and reinstalling Android Studio but same result. The entry was available in the "programs and features" but when I tried uninstalling I'd get something along "program already uninstalled, remove from list?" which was an error.
What fixed it for me was running geek uninstaller, it showed up there and when I double-clicked it it started the uninstall process normally.
That's probably because you have never installed it. You may have just downloaded the zip and clicked .exe
In that case you can easily download another/newer version and do the same.
It's also possible to have multiple versions on your drive and run them separately. (That's recommended if you use alpha channels, so you can switch to a stable channel if something is not working correctly)
I had the same issue. This is how I solved mine: I downloaded the zip file of an older Android Studio version from here (https://developer.android.com/studio/archive). For me, I picked Android Studio 4.1 Canary 2 released on Mar 9, 2019. I am guessing you can pick most of the older ones and it will have the uninstall.exe program in it. Without decompressing the zip file, I just opened the zip file found the uninstall.exe program at the bottom of list right away. I copied the uninstall.exe and pasted it on my current Android Studio file folder. Double clicked it, and Windows uninstalled the program completely. I made sure to check the box where you want to remove the Android User settings as well (up to you what you prefer).
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I tried downloading and installing eclipse because I want to explore android programming. I tried downloading and installing all the tools in the android device manager without thinking about how much space it can use. The downloads used 14 gb in my disk and I'm already regretting it. I tried deleting all my eclipse file but it still uses the same amount on my disk. Is there anything I can do to completely remove all eclipse files in my computer?
normally eclipse works like a portable software. You can only install Plugins inside it, which will be saved in the plugin folder. So in my opinion you have to search manually where it is on your space and after this you better download right here: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
normally it must be done if you just delete the eclipse folder ...
You have to remove the android installation with all its packages : documentations, sdk, ecc... you can find them into the android folder,
C:\Program Files\Android in Windows
or open the Android SDK manager and remove every installed package.
Recently I experienced that Android Studio is hanging a lot. Right in the middle of typing in any editor it will hang and block me from doing anything else for a couple of seconds. Restarting or killing adb wouldn't help.
After a while I realized that this happens if the documentation is being loaded and displayed. This happens mostly for Android documentation, which is quite verbose and also seems to contain images and formatting.
I already tried switching off the Auto-update from source option, but that doesn't change anything.
Any ideas what could cause Android Studio to block while it's loading or displaying (or doing whatever with) the documentation?
I'm using Android Studio 2.1.1, the latest build with the security fix.
you can check this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26149069/2133585
Here's what fixed it for me:
Make sure you have the Documentation package downloaded in SDK Manager.
Exit Studio if it's running.
Delete the file named "jdk.table.xml" located in ~/.AndroidStudioX.Y/config/options/ (remember to take a backup
first!).
Relaunch Android Studio. should work correctly now and it should regenerate the file automatically.
Note:
This worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04 & Android Studio 0.8.11 (EDIT: Several users are reporting this solution also works for
newer versions of Android Studio).
If it still doesn't work, try deleting and re-downloading the Documentation package from inside Android SDK Manager then try the
above steps.
If you're running Windows, the file is located at "%UserProfile%.AndroidStudio\config\options", and if you're running
OS X, it's located at "~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio/options"
(credits to #Gero and #Alex Lipov).
Fix still works for AS 2.2.3 and MacOS 10.12.2 Sierra
I have just updated my Android Studio from 1.4 to 2.0, on startup it freezes on splash-screen. is it possible to fix it or i have to download it again?
Its very strange. I have also updated to 2.0 in my MAC, Ubuntu and Windows 10. I didn't feel any issues till now in any of these.
Please note that 2.0 is still a preview. You may have to wait till Google releases the stable version.
Which operating system are you using?
For Windows, check the log of
C:\Users\<Username>\.AndroidStudioPreview2.0\system\log\idea.log
and paste here the last relevant entries on the bottom with a recent timestamp, containing an error message or indication of a possible freeze.
Also, check that you don't have any Android Studio, IntelliJ, or java-processes running before you start Android Studio.
This is an answer for my question, after trying many methods now it works fine.
This is how i resolved my problem by:
Updating Android SDK Tools and the latest SDK Platform
Removing the Android Studio cache folder situated in
C:\Users\<username>\.AndroidStudioPreview2.0
Running android studio again
At First Update Your Android SDK Tools (Support Repository )
Actually Android Studio creates a local directory . AndroidStudio to
cache its own data. In most environments, this is acceptable. However,
the size of the directory can easily exceed 300Mb and, if you have a
space constraint on your home drive (or a roaming profile in windows),
this may be better off in some other place.
The location of this directory is placed in an idea.properties file in the bin/ directory of your AS is installed.
I've installed Android Studio 1.0 rc and Android SDK in my Archlinux box. But when I try to create a new Android Application, the AS would try to download another set of SDK directly from dl-ssl.google.com. I mean why, why wouldn't it start first and let me configure the SDK path? (I am in mainland China, so the connect will be reset all the times, in another word, AS will not start to workspace.
Looks like that is in the known issues list: http://tools.android.com/knownissues
A bug in Android Studio 1.0 RC1 causes the Setup Wizard to show up and ask you to install an SDK on each startup. To work around this, you can edit the idea.properties file in the bin folder such that it has the below line as well:
disable.android.first.run=true
PLEASE NOTE: This will break patch updating to the next version. We now check full binary checksums on the whole installation to prevent various install corruption bugs as well as to preserve application signatures. Therefore, make a copy of this file first, and before updating, put it back. (Alternatively, just download the full image of RC2 when it is released.)
Here is how my story goes. At first, I installed the Android SDK in the default directory it selected, which was Program File (x86) (which I thought the default was supposed to be app data?!) After SUCCESSFULLY pulling the APIs I quickly realized the mistake I had made, due to spaces being in the name, so I then uninstalled it and re-installed it in my D drive under a folder called development.
That all went fine, but when I tried to pull the SDK, I received the "A folder failed to be renamed or moved" message. I then tried disabling my anti-virus (more on that later), closing all other windows, and even ending windows explorer, but nothing changed.
To disable my antivirus, I used it's control panel (Avast BTW) to turn off the shields. What I really wanted to do was end the process, but, and here is the big but, Access Denied! I even ran taskmgr.exe as admin, but no success. Can anyone explain why that is? Anyways, after getting fed up with it all, I just booted into safemode with networking, and all is well for now, but I really would hate doing this every time I need to update the SDK, so any suggestions on how to fix this would be a great help, especially how to end my antivirus process so I can see if that's the problem.
EDIT: And I also did all that while running the Android SDK manager as administrator from the folder it is installed in.
I assume that the problem happens because the upgrade program wants to upgrade itself directly while it is running. My solution is that every time before you want to install something new, make a copy of \<sdk dir>\tools dir in the \<sdk dir>\ path, and then, upgrade or install something by excecuting android.bat in the copied tools folder. This works for me.
try rename "platform-tools" folder as "_platform-tools" and create a new folder as name "platform-tools".
that's work for me!
Having eclipse open sometimes causes this.
Open the Android SDK Manager then close eclipse before you press the "install packages" button and it should be fine.