Is it possible to allocate these folders in another place?
I think most of the others answers address the issue, But I found more simple way for windows by adding few environment variables . (Might work for mac as well, I didn't test though)
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT - path to the SDK installation directory
default path - C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk Add enviroment variable ANDROID_SDK_ROOT - set value to desired location Eg: =E:\Android\local\Android\Sdk
For .android
folder
default path - C:\Users\XXXX\.android
Add enviroment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME- set value to desired location
Eg: = E:\Android
For .gradle
folder
default path - C:\Users\XXXX\.gradle
Add enviroment variable GRADLE_USER_HOME - set value to desired location
Eg: = E:\Android\.gradle
For .androidstudioXXX
Android Studio-> Help-> Edit Custom Properties Add below lines
idea.config.path=E:/Android/.AndroidStudio4.0/config idea.system.path=E:/Android/.AndroidStudio4.0/system
Add environment variable STUDIO_PROPERTIES - set value to desired location Eg: = E:\Android\idea.properties
Finally don't forget to copy files from the original location to the new location.
Source : https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/variables Please see the end of the page to know how to add the environment variable on Windows, Mac or Linux
Finally, I got the solution to move three of the folders that I put above. I think it could be interesting to put here the problems that I faced and the changes that I made to solve them.
I'm going to investigate about the last folder, .oracle_jre_usage
, and I will complete this answer if I got a solution for it. Look that I complete the solution for .gradle
folder.
To move .android
folder
Really, following the steps of the blog that Rahul Tiwari
provided, this folder could been moved. Nevertheless I'm going to put here all the process:
You have to move your
.android
folder, after closingAndroid Studio
(if you have it running), to the folder in which you want that it will be stored, in my case,C:\Users\Administrator\AndroidStudio
.BEWARE WITH THE SPACES IN THE NAME OF THE NEW FOLDER, IT COULD GIVE TO YOU PROBLEMS (AS ME). I mean,
Android Studio
,New Folder
or similars.If you are on
Windows
, you can do right-click onMy Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables
and create a new environment variable namedANDROID_SDK_HOME
and as value you have to put the new path in which.android
folder will be stored. It's the same path in which you have moved the.android
folder in the step above.Click "OK" button to accept your changes.
Re-launch
Android Studio
and look that the.android
folder doesn't appear in the default path.
To move .AndroidStudio1.3
folder
With that folder I had some problems because I didn't noticed some details that were very important. Here the steps that I followed:
First of all, you have to close
Android Studio
before doing any change.After, you have to move the folder
.AndroidStudio1.3
to the path in which you want that it will be stored.Next, you have to go to the folder in which
Android Studio
were installed and open "idea.properties" file and changed the lines where idea.config.path and idea.system.path appeared for the new path in which these folders are going to be located.
They have to be something similar to this:
idea.config.path=C:/Users/Administrator/AndroidStudio/.AndroidStudio1.3/config
idea.system.path=C:/Users/Administrator/AndroidStudio/.AndroidStudio1.3/system
Here I had three problems so please be careful:
- Notice that the paths are with
/
and not with\
asWindows
put by default.
- DON'T CHANGE the values of idea.plugins.path and idea.log.path (My EDIT 3). Be sure that you are changing idea.config.path and idea.system.path values.
- Uncomment the lines in which idea.config.path and idea.system.path appears. I mean, remove the
#
that they have at the begining of each line.
- The last step, re-launch
Android Studio
.
Searching and doing some proves I also get the solution to move .gradle
folder. The steps are the same as .android
folder but I put here all the steps (with the values that changed) to avoid any confusion. Here it is:
To move .gradle
folder
You have to move your
.gradle
folder, after closingAndroid Studio
(if you have it running), to the folder in which you want that it will be stored, in my case,C:\Users\Administrator\AndroidStudio\.gradle
.BEWARE WITH THE SPACES IN THE NAME OF THE NEW FOLDER, IT COULD GIVE TO YOU PROBLEMS (AS ME). I mean,
Android Studio
,New Folder
or similars.If you are on
Windows
, you can do right-click onMy Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables
and create a new environment variable namedGRADLE_USER_HOME
and as value you have to put the new path in which.gradle
folder will be stored. It's the same path in which you have moved the.gradle
folder in the step above.Click "OK" button to accept your changes.
Re-launch
Android Studio
and look that the.gradle
folder doesn't appear in the default path.
How to move data from %UserProfile%
The folders will still remain under %UserProfile%, but not the data.
Move .android
- Android Studio is closed
Add Environment Variable
Create "System variable":
Variable name: ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Variable value: D:\Android
Move .AndroidStudio
This is a example with Android Studio version 3.1
- Start Android Studio
- Help -> Edit Custom Properties...
- Click Yes to create file
Edit file with:
idea.config.path=D:/Android/.AndroidStudio3.1/config
idea.system.path=D:/Android/.AndroidStudio3.1/system
The file "idea.properties" is located under:
%UserProfile%/.AndroidStudio3.1/config
Close Android Studio
- Delete all under %UserProfile%/.AndroidStudio3.1 except the file "/config/idea.properties"
- Optional: Delete older version folders of .AndroidStudio
Don't edit "Android Studio/bin/idea.properties". When updating Android Studio this file is cleared.
Move .gradle
- Start Android Studio
- File -> Settings... -> Gradle
Change "Service directory path" to:
D:/Android/.gradle
Update Android Studio
- Start Android Studio
- "Import Studio settings from" is showed
- Select: D:/Android/.AndroidStudio3.0/config
At least for Android 3.0 the steps in the accepted solution are not enough to be able to run the emulators after moving the .android folder (let's say you moved the folder from c:\Users\<username>\.android
to I:\Programs\AppData\.android
).
In addition you need to
- Copy (or leave) files adbkey and adbkey.pub in old location (i.e.
c:\Users\<username>\.android\adbkey
,c:\Users\<username>\.android\adbkey.pub
) - Replace the old location path string
C:\Users\<username>\
in all .INI files found in the new avd location (i.e. inI:\Programs\AppData\.android\avd
) with the new location path stringI:\Programme\AppData\
- Delete all
*.qcow2
files from the new avd location (i:\Programme\AppData\.android\avd
) which contain the old location path stringc:\Users\<username>\
. Check Qcow2-files refer to incorrect/nonexistent base-images for an alternative to delete the *.qcow2 files. If you delete the files all data in the emulator is lost, in this case you will get a clean version of Android, like after a hard reset.