I am new to Android development and have poor internet connection at home, whenever I create a new android project it takes forever to sync and build and most of the times it fails to build at all, I was wondering if there is a way so that I can download and save all the necessary build files like gradle, builder jar etc and use them to make android studio work offline?
Thank you and have great day.
I would suggest at least installing Gradle separately, and configuring projects not to download and use the Gradle wrapper for every new project.
After Android Studio downloads all the other libraries for the first time, then you can turn on offline mode in the IDE, and those packages will be shared for all projects
As soon as you try to use a new library, though, you need to get back online
Enable offline mode
If you are on a slow network connection, your build times may suffer when Gradle attempts to use network resources to resolve dependencies. You can tell Gradle to avoid using network resources by using only the artifacts that it has cached locally.
To use Gradle offline when building with Android Studio, proceed as follows:
Open the Preferences window by clicking File > Settings (on Mac, Android Studio > Preferences).
In the left pane, click Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle.
Check the Offline work checkbox.
Click Apply or OK.
If you're building from the command line, pass the --offline option.
For more info, visit https://developer.android.com/studio/build/optimize-your-build
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When I create a new project in android studio. It downloads some files every time. It is really frustrating to wait for more than 15 minutes to complete. It is worse when the downloading got failed and ask to download it again.
I googled it and found a lot of ways Some people suggest this way. Some suggest that way but they all are confusing.
Is there any simple way so that the AS doesn`t need online every time to download files.
Enable Gradle offline mode, It will fix your problem.
Follow this instruction on how to do that.
I'm assuming that you are using Android Studio on Windows.
File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Gradle
Check the checkbox for Offline work. -> Apply or OK
Update
Go to the right side of Android Studio look for Gradle select it.
Then press the Toggle offline mode button.
You can check the effect by creating a new project.
I don't have stable internet connection in my area so I think of using the offline component found on Android studio download page namely Android Gradle Plugin and Google Maven dependencies I followed the offline component set instructions on this page https://developer.android.com/r/studio-offline/instructions
But after all the set up if I open Android studio and click on a sample project I use to have a build sync error pointing to the manual-offline-m2 . I need help in this area .
NB: if I connect to the internet and open a new sample project in Android studio without those offline set up it will build successfully. [![Screenshot of the build sync failure.][2]][2]
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/XoddD.jpg
Android Studio require a Internet connection because when you open new project, Android Studio is reinstalling Gradle.
The image you have provided is not clear. However, Gradle build can run without an internet connection. You have to enable offline-mode from settings. (Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle & check Offline work checkbox) Then Gradle will avoid using network resources. But sometimes it may cause errors, at that time you may want an internet connection.
EDIT:
To enable offline work in Android Studio 3.6+ go to View > Tool Windows > Gradle from the menu bar & open the Gradle window. Then click Toggle Offline Mode button.
This question already has answers here:
How to configure gradle to work "offline" (using cached dependencies)
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I am on a slow internet connection and would like to use downloaded Gradle wherever possible rather than AS downloading it every time I build.
Now how do I setup AS for that?
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To enable offline mode you can follow this steps:
Enable offline mode
If you are on a slow network connection, your
build times may suffer when Gradle attempts to use network resources
to resolve dependencies. You can tell Gradle to avoid using network
resources by using only the artifacts that it has cached locally.
To use Gradle offline when building with Android Studio, proceed as
follows:
Open the Preferences window by clicking File > Settings (on Mac,
Android Studio > Preferences). In the left pane, click Build,
Execution, Deployment > Gradle. Check the Offline work checkbox. Click
Apply or OK.
If you're building from the command line, pass the
--offline option.
As shown here Optimize your build speed
I need to use android studio at work, but the proxy doesn't let me download the packages, so I try to use android studio in offline mode following this tutorial:
https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/studio-config#offline
So I completed the steps, and created a project. I activated 'offline work' in the Android Studio->settings->gradle, but when I try to build it, android studio still tries to download gradle. I also get an error when syncing: Unknown host 'services.gradle.org'. You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle.
btw the 2 zip files for maven and gradle each contain one folder. do I need to extract these folders or their content into the manual-offline-m2 folder? I assume the latter but I tried both and it didn't work
From answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/35859572/5835947 we know that "Offline work" really helps a lot when you face the problem that Android Studio builds app too slow. As an extension, Why does "Offline work" make Gradle Build Running faster in Android Studio? Is it because Android Studio will download files from internet every time I rebuild the application when Android Studio is in "Online work" mode? If so, Why put "online work" as the default action? It doesn't seem wise at all.
If you are "offline", you don't download libraries from Internet and get your build faster. But if you add a new dependency and work still offline, you don't get this library.
With other words: after every new dependency go online and build gradle to download new library. After that you can go offline and build your project faster.
The same thing is if you want to update the library to new Version.