First off I want to say that I'm not trying to change where software should "look," for the SDK. I already did that and it works fine.
I am trying to update the SDK tools through Android Studio and even though I already have the SDK and other tools installed on a larger secondary "E:/" drive that's 4tb, Android Studio insists on downloading something more than 60gb of files onto my (already almost full) 120gb SSD boot drive where Android Studio is installed.
The folders that it's downloading are:
C:\users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Temp\PackageOperation##
It only said it was going to take 14GB before I started downloading which makes it all the more frustrating. It's still downloading as I post this, and it's only about 1/4 of the way done but I have to go to work. I'm worried it's going to run out of space and not be able to finish. Is there any way to tell Android Studio to download these to my other HDD?
Update: It went to about 70GB and left me with only 1GB of free space before it started deleting the files and freeing up space. It ended up finishing, but I don't know if this was a coincidence or not. It's still too close for comfort so if anyone could help that would be fantastic
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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).
Hello Guys I just want some help for installing android studio components, I already installed the android studio but when I downloading the components on first startup of the application, It stuck at downloading component (image attached below). I have a fast internet connections but It doesn't continue.
Thank you guys
I had a similar problem but after reading several posts it appeared that for some users it just takes a long time for the first download to complete during which it does not show any progress. So by just leaving it for about 10min+ it might carry on.
Having said that, in my attempts to get it going I did the following (although I now believe none of it might have been necessary)
remove the original installation by deleting /Program Files/android
remove the SDK files by deleting \Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Android
install latest version of Java
restart computer
i wanted to install chipmunk but at this point I installed bumblebee from the self install exe
start android studio - the setup wizard starts AND gets stuck for about 10 minutes!!
Let it complete its download and select finish
at this point I copied / started Chipmunk and this time it had no problem with setup wizard.
If this does not work, also see a similar link below:
android-studio-first-run-stuck-at-downloading-components-window
I have been trying most of today to install and use Android 4.1 development SDK. I won't bother anyone with everything I have tried.
It seemed to be operational, but I needed to install an AMD emulator to actually do anything. Using the SDK Tool Kit manager, I have been trying to get it to install the required software, but every time I try I get this error:
Disk usage:
Estimated download size 91.2 MB
Estimated disk space to be additionally occupied on SDK partition after installation: 364.7 MB
Currently available disk space in SDK root(location of the SDK root) 0 B
Any ideas will be much appreciated.
I am running on a 4 year old HP laptop with one hard drive partition with 916 of storage and a recovery partition with 13.9 GB. File Manager shows my D drive has 851 GB available.
I came up against this while trying to reinstall AS (don't ask why). What seemed to have happened was that after the new install it opened the last project I'd worked on, though I thought I'd removed all user settings.
This meant skipping the start up screen where, heaven knows why, you still have to download the SDK. I was tearing my hair out and finally closed the project, at which point the start up screen appeared and I could download the SDK.
For me the solution in the latest Android was to
Remove all sdk files, leave Android Studio.
Close all projects in Android Studio
Launch empty Android Studio and install the Android SDK.
After empty launch with basic SDK installation disk space is calculated properly and you can install required components in SDK manager.
I got the solution.
The reason it is saying 0B is because - you might have deleted the location of the SDK.
You have to manually create the folders in the path.
For example if your SDK path shows on that pop-up is: /Users/name/Library/Android/sdk
Then go to this path and check if all these folders are available.
If not, create them.
Then come back and click again in the SDK manager.
It will allow you to install and it will show the available sizes as well.
I'm currently working on Linux. I have a bad quality internet connection, so downloading large things could take a lot of time.
If I want to update / install new build tools to Android Studio a modal window is shown. So, for downloading, I'd have to wait for hours until it finishes. But, I need to keep coding while it downloads stuff.
Opening multiple instances of Android Studio didn't help.
I could run the SDK manager in a stand-alone way. But, I couldn't find a way to to upgrade the IDE version, or install tools like NDK in a non-blocking manner.
So, any idea?
I'm facing the same issue with the Android Studio 3.2 update, there doesn't seem to be any way to use the IDE while downloading the update, which is kind of stupid. I guess one solution is to download the entire IDE manually at the Android Studio website.
On a related note, when downloading emulator system images there is a URL displayed in the download window. You can simply copy'n'paste this in a browser to download it manually and then unpack in the correct sdk/system-images/ folder if you want to download it "in the background".
I am getting this error randomly and not sure as to why my disk space is getting low for Android Studio..
Low disk space on a Android Studio system directory partition
Update
This Application is installed on a mac running 10.10.1 w/ 251GB internal storage and an OS restore Drive taking 10GB.
I think the problem is, once the application was installed it was placed on the smaller partition.
I will attempt to remove this application and all files associated to it, and reinstall. Hopefully this will solve the issue.
You can install studio and SDK separately into different partitions: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other
Or you can move your existing SDK folder anywhere and then just point studio to it in preferences.
Also consider that AVD files are actually stored in your system user folder (user/.android/avd on Windows, not sure where exactly on mac), not in SDK folder.
I had the same problem, I installed android studio a 128gb partition and togther with JAVA jdk and all sdk related file it consume most of its disk space. I re-install it on a larger partition and it solve my problem.
I was getting this error and restarting Android Studio and adding more memory did not help. At this point I noticed it was happening across all my emulators in android studio. It turns out that some of the files in the emulators could not be read because they have became corrupt. The simplest solution is usually the best answer so restarting my computer fixed it. Hope this saves someone time!
Android Studio with SDK Tools,JDK and AVD takes almost 30gb but I believe that it needs a little bit more to work properly.Everything bigger than 40gb it's Ok.It depends on the number of SDK's that you download.If you have 40gb of free disk space you will never have this message.Sometimes crashes or pop messages if you use it a lot of days without reboot your computer make a reboot and everything will be fine.
I just compressed the drive and there was 25GB of space available now. The problem vanished. Then when i shutted down my PC and restarted it the next day I got an error BOOTMGR compressed. SO i followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnyhz-CRQU and fixed it and now I still have 25GB space available. It worked for me
Please open below mention path and delete you all avd's here.
C:\Users{Username}.android\avd
Sometimes, deleting emulator in android studio is not enough to reduce all the spaces grab by these emulator's. So deleting these emulator's from above mention path.
You can click on your SDK manager then navigate to Appearance settings > systems settings > Android SDK. From here just click on optimize disk space on the top right corner of your window. I was able to clear about 15gb then it worked smoothly.
I had a same problem and I solved by deleting some unwanted files from my disk.
Reason - The disk space is low which u have android SDK and android studio file.
solution - Delect some files from your disk which has your android sdk and studio.
If you have facing the issue in low disk space in android studio,just delete the unwanted emulator in your AVD manager.I wasted the whole to try other things.it help full to any one.it working for me.
It worked only after restarting my MacBook 🤷♂️