I just installed the new version of Ubuntu (17.10) but now if I try to install Android Studio by running "studio.sh" it doesn't show the install wizard. It's there but I can't see it. Does anyone know how to get it to display? This is a fresh install of both.
Update: I've found a workaround. If I alt + ~ then I can see the preview image and I can actually use this to navigate through the wizard and get it to work. But this isn't really ideal. The wizard is apparently on the screen and I can interact with it via the keyboard, I just can't see it.
You have to execute the studio.sh file using the command below.
(I assume you have extracted the archive in your home directory)
$cd android-studio/bin
~/android-studio/bin$./studio.sh
It will open a wizard for basic setup like downloading sdk etc.
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Is it possible to use Android Studio and configure Windows Subsystem for Linux as a Terminal? I really don't like to work with Windows cmd.exe, but when I try to switch to bash.exe, which seems to work, it cannot build the project because there are missing e.g. Android/sdk/build-tools/27.0.3/aidl'.
This file is there, but it is with .exe suffix as it was downloaded for Windows. Any workaround to use *unix like bash for Terminal in Android Studio while being on Windows 10?
Yes, it is possible. I'm doing it right now. I have an Ubuntu app as WSL and figured out that it's accessible at C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe
So, open Android Studio and navigate to File -> Settings -> Tools -> Terminal. There fill Shell paht with C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe and voilà!
Now, when you open a new terminal it will use the WSL you have installed in your machine.
I'm using Android Studio 4.0.1.
I'm setting this up right now and hit your question from Google looking for advice. So with that caveat, let me explain what I did to get it running and if you have follow up questions we may need to experiment together to find the answers.
First, I installed VcXserv: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/. This X Server for windows allows you to run graphical linux applications in WSL. You'll just need to export the display variable in your ~/.bashrc since that isn't done normally in WSL:
$ echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> ~/.bashrc
Then you have to run XLaunch from the start menu. It takes you through the config dialogs (just choose the defaults) and it puts an icon in the notification area you can check to make sure it's running.
Then, you want to download the Linux version of Android Studio 3.1. Extract it into the WSL filesystem somewhere (I used ~/apps). Then from your bash shell you can run android-studio/bin/studio.sh and the window will appear and begin the unboxing dialogs.
This is as far as I've gotten, right now it's downloading the SDK. I still am not sure how adb over usb is going to work or tested the emulator. I'll update this if I learn more.
Update unfortunately, VcXserv is crashing when the main Android Studio window launches. I'm going to file a bug report on it and try some other X servers if I have time later.
Is it necessary to download android sdk for each and every system we install android studiod? Isnt there a way to copy the whole setup from one computer to another ?
Copying the whole Android Studio Folder (don't has to be installed on C) should work.
Not tested!
Android website have options to download only the sdks whichever you want.
And then when you install Android Studio afterwards, when it first opens it will ask you to point out the path for Android SDK either on the first windows that pops up or in the settings tab.
So just copy the SDKs into the system everytime you have to install Android Studio and just simply point it out from it.
How do you install an apk on the emulator in Android Studio from the terminal?
In Eclipse we did
/home/pcname/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 install /home/pcname/Downloads/apkname.apk
Now how about in Android Studio?
Run simulator -> drag and drop yourApp.apk into simulator screen.
Thats all.
No commands.
EDIT: Even though this answer is marked as the correct answer (in 2013), currently, as answered by #user2511630 below, you can drag-n-drop apk files directly into the emulator to install them.
Original Answer:
You can install .apk files to emulator regardless of what you are using (Eclipse or Android Studio)
here's what I always do: (For full beginners)
1- Run the emulator, and wait until it's completely started.
2- Go to your sdk installation folder then go to platform-tools (you should see an executable called adb.exe)
3- create a new file and call it run.bat, edit the file with notepad and write CMD in it and save it.
4- copy your desired apk to the same folder
5- now open run.bat and write adb install "your_apk_file.apk"
6- wait until the installation is complete
7- voila your apk is installed to your emulator.
Note: to re-install the application if it already existe use adb install -r "your_apk_file.apk"
sorry for the detailed instruction as I said for full beginners
Hope this help.
Regards,
Tarek
For those using Mac and you get a command not found error, what you need to do is
type
./adb install "yourapk.apk"
Start your Emulator from Android Studio Tools->Android-> AVD Manager then select an emulator image and start it.
After emulator is started just drag and drop the APK Very simple.
Just drag APK file to android emulator it will install automatically.
In android studio emulator to run an apk file just drag the apk into the emulator.The emulator will install the apk
Much easier is just to start your emulator, then go to sdk/platform-tools and use adb from there to install apk. Like:
adb install xxx.apk
It will install it on running emulator.
Drag and drop apk if the emulator is launched from Android Studio. If the emulator is started from command line, drag and drop doesn't work, but #Tarek K. Ajaj instructions (above) work.
Note: Installed app won't automatically appear on the home screen, it is in the apps container - the dotted grid icon. It can be dragged from there to the home screen.
For Linux: once emulator is running, the following worked for me.
Because I installed the Android SDK on my home directory, I have the following file structure:
home/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
home/AndroidStudioProjects/Metronome.adk
AndroidStudioProjects is a file folder I made for my Android projects. "Metronome.adk" is the file I want to run.
So, using Terminal from the home directory...
./Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb install ./AndroidStudioProjects/Metronome.adk
Being a Linux novice, I often forget the need to put the "./" in when trying to locate a file or run a command.
After the command achieves "Success", the app is in the Apps area of the emulator and can be run.
When you start Android studio Look for Profile or Debug apk.
After clicking you get the option to browse for the saved apk and you will be able to later run it using emulator
If Android Studio is already open:
Click on File you can find Profile or Debug apk in this menu too
Just download the apk from talkback website
Drag the downloaded apk to the started emulator, Go to settings on emulator > Search for talkback, you will now find it there
1.Install Android studio.
2.Launch AVD Manager
3.Verify environment variable in set properly based on OS(.bash_profile in mac and environment Variable in windows)
4. launch emulator
5. verify via adb devices command.
6.use adb install apkFileName.apk
Upload your apk file on the cloud , then make a direct download link for downloading and then copy that link and paste it on the emulator browser for download it :) ;
In Android Studio: View - Tool Windows - Gradle
In the Gradle tool window navigate to your :app - Tasks - install
and then execute (by double-clicking): any of your install*tasks: e.g. installDebug, installRelease
Note: the apk will also automatically installed when you Run your application
I installed android studio but while selecting android SDK I am getting following error. I tried solution which is on this post but no luck. How can I solve this?
I had this problem, select SDK folder (NOT SDK->sources or SDK-platforms)
I resolved with the instructions here,
http://www.blog.teamguru.in/2018/04/06/selected-directory-is-not-a-valid-home-for-sdk/
Just close current error window and let run the android studio
Open the SDK manager as shown below
Click on Edit SDK location as shown below
Simply press next button if there is correct location for SDK you want to install there
Let it be downloaded
Install platform and SDK tools and
Enjoy
Try restarting the application. Close all related studio processes, then right click "run as administrator".
You should be fine after this.
I got the same issue. You must enable the Android Support Plugin
Configuration > Plugin > Android Support Plugin. Check it.
Close error window
Go to gradle tab
select "Gradle settings", wrench icon
Search for SDK setup
Select appropriate sdk for your device.
Next, two times
Wait for install
There is all..
None of the other answers work. After the installation, immediately close Android Studio, then start it as administrator. A message might popup asking for the sdk manager location. Ignore it (Close the popup). Go to Tools > SDK Manager and click on the edit button on the right of Android SDK Location. Then click Next, next and you're good to go. Android Studio will let you install the sdk manager.
I had the same problem but what I found is that it requires the parent folder of the following things AVD manager,SDK manager,tools,platform-tools,build-tools etc.So what you need is to find the parent directory of these things, which you might find with a name such as android-sdk or android-sdk-windows(in case you are using windows OS).Make sure the above said contents are in that folder and select it.I hope you will find this useful.
Download the SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Start SDK manager and make everything up to date
Also, make sure you have set the language level to
7.0 Diamonds, ARM, Multi-catch, etc
I had this problem on Linux. Apparently you need write access to some place in that directory, so I just took ownership of the entire thing:
sudo chown -R thomas:thomas /opt/android-sdk
Could be that something similar is going on on Windows as well.
If like me, a MacOs user which has installed Android Studio on my Mac and if you've tried everything you can think of but was still unable to set the Android SDK directory in Android Studio, follow the next steps (I know the site where I got the bundle is a freeware site but the package is the right one):
1. Download adt-bundle-mac (Android Developer Tools) from [here][1].
2. Unzip the file and browse into the unzipped folder.
3. Copy only the sdk dir to /Users/username/Library/Android
4. Open Android Studio, the error about the SDK folder which is not set will pop up, set the path to the SDK to "/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk".
5. Now Android Studio will accept the path and you're good to go.
I wasted about 2 hours until I fixed it so I hope that by writing this answer I'll save you some 2 hours.
The sdk folder contains the platform-tools folder.
I copied this folder and named it platforms, then it worked for me.
Just delete(preferably permanently) all the android directories in whatever location they are present(e.g. C:\Program Files\Android, C:\users\respective user\respective android folders). Remove the installer as well(if possible). Make sure to save all your Android Studio files in some external storage (preferably).
The main thing is to get Android studio with SDK.
Now go to the android studio website and install android studio leaving all settings default. There you will also get to install the SDK and it's linking.
It will take some time to load and will load nearly 1.5 GB files.
This worked for my case.
In my case I wasn't giving him admin permission
Steps to follow:
Close Android Studio.
Restart Android Studio and Give the path of Empty Folder .
Install Sdk in that folder(Sdk will automatically install and will get configure automatically.)
With Android Studio 4.1.2 the easiest thing is to close the project (file / close project). That's how you get to the wizard that automatically sets up the SDK for you.
The default location that it suggests is /Users/stan/Library/Android/sdk (exactly the same that I was trying to set up manually but AS kept saying it's invalid)
Running XP sp3 when i click SDK Setup.exe command line promt comes up and goes away fast and nothing else happens is there a fix for this ?
try making empty folders named 'platforms' and 'add-ons' without quotations in your android-sdk-windows folder and then running sdk setup.exe
worked for me just now
I just download the .zip file, opened the file and double-clicked the SDK Setup.exe and it loaded fine. A setup window popped up in the background, that does not happen to you at all?
EDIT:
Take a look into Installing the Android SDK and look over the System Requirements and make sure you have both JDK 5 or JDK 6 (which you do) and JRE 6
Run it from the System command prompt not the User command prompt, not sure if thats really what its called, but there are 2 separate command prompts. You want the one that has higher privelages.
UPDATE
Is your computer able to connect to https? That was an issue that was holding me back from installing android at first, however it is appropriate for the command prompt to disappear immediately.
Ok here is my own fix and recommending it to others save SDK kit unzip to C:\ then 1.) download the latest java currently java 6.0.18 from --> java web site save and run (I used c:\ for file locations to save and run from) 2.) download the latest "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" from --> eclipse org downloads site 3.) go to my computer c:\ --> C:\Program Files\Java copy the jre6 folder or jre...what ever version you may have paste the folder into the folder name C:\eclipse rename the folder from jre6 to just "jre" this will allow eclipse to run, in eclipse click on the help tab click install new software add location http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ ok do restart go back into eclipse go to window tab preferences, expand android, browse c:\android-sdk-windows ok, window tab Android SDK and AVD manager, Available packages, select all, update, in same area go to virtual devices, new, name: Hi target: android 2.1, create AVD, Select and start, now you will have android 2.1 emulator working