Handy answer to go nuclear: rm -Rf /Applications/Android\ Studio. It doesn't start, see the split-second popup 😢
This should be exactly what I need, trying this solution again: export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT='/Volumes/1TB/Android/'Įxport ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME='/Volumes/1TB/emulator/'Įxport ANDROID_AVD_HOME='/Volumes/1TB/emulator/avd/'įormatted and partitioned the external SSD. You might want to specify a new location if the default location is low on disk space. The default location is $ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME/avd/. For Mac and Linux users, you need to add the following line to your. Android emulators are managed through a UI called AVD. After installing, make sure you have added android-sdk to your system path. The left panel list the android devices ( physical or emulator ). The files are stored on SSD but when I try to launch, it keep bouncing in the dock 😢ĪNDROID_AVD_HOME: Sets the path to the directory that contains all AVD-specific files, which mostly consist of very large disk images. The purpose of this section is to guide you to create in your development environment an Android emulator. Step 4: Go to the Android SDK location in file explorer then click on platform-tools. You may want to do this to open a SQLite Database, or to change the hosts file in Windows Mobile Emulator. Each emulator and SDK tools have different capabilities on reading and writing files to disk. How to configure location of AVD? Attempt 1 When you are developing on an emulator, you may want to look at the files created by the application. I would like to store multiple virtual devices, far beyond the capacity of the Mac internal storage.