I have at least PC and a laptop to work on and have a tendency to reinstall them around 6 months. I try to make portable versions of development tools as much possible, so I can easily continue my works after reinstalls ( at will or after system failures)
I work on making Android Studio Portable, through the proved IntelliJ-IDEA method of portability. I made the most of the work with simple environmental values and a few file modification.
Basic Setup
here is my start.bat file for basic settings. (same environment variables should work also for linux/mac in theory)
set ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=t:\Tools\Android\sdk\
set ANDROID_HOME=t:\Tools\Android\sdk\
set ANDROID_SDK_HOME=t:\Tools\Android\.android
set ANDROID_PREFS_ROOT=t:\Tools\Android\.android
set GRADLE_USER_HOME=t:\Tools\Android\.gradle
set STUDIO_PROPERTIES=t:\Tools\Android\studio.4.1.1.properties
start t:\Tools\Android\android-studio.4.1.1\bin\studio64.exe
and "studio.4.1.1.properties" is just a modified version of "bin/idea.properties"
That is all needed and everything works (almost) perfect with no more effort.
Problem
The problem is the installation of plugins, at least of those that require a restart.
Whenever I try to install a plugin, it is downloaded and listed in the installed plugins tab, with the "requires restart" button. They are in fact really are downloaded as zipped files into "system/plugins" folder and marked to be installed with "action.script" file.
But after restart, none of these newly-installed plugins are really installed. trying to repeat the installation, everything goes into a loop of nightmare.
Temporary Solution
A solution for now is to go into "system/plugins" folder, and manually extract each downloaded file into "config/plugins" folder. And then next restart, they are all installed an ready to work on.
Tested Versions
I have tested few versions as old to date back 2017. (all zipped versions):
android-studio.4.1 : same as 4.1.1, fails to install plugins
android-studio.2.3.3 : same as 4.1.1, fails to install plugins
Comparison with IDEA
I have also downloaded different IntelliJ-IDEA versions to see if they have this problem (all zipped versions).
idea-2020.3.0 community
idea-2017.1.6 community
idea.2016.2.5 ultimate
None of them had this plugin installation problem.
System Info
Build: AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283, 202011050241,
AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283, JRE 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b01x64 JetBrains s.r.o, OS Windows 10(amd64) v10.0 , screens 1920x1080, 1920x1080
AS: 4.1.1; Kotlin plugin: 1.3.72-release-Studio4.1-5; Android Gradle Plugin: 4.1.1; Gradle: 6.5; NDK: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found); LLDB: pinned revision 3.1 not found, latest from SDK: (package not found); CMake: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found), from PATH: (not found)
Description
Introduction
I have at least PC and a laptop to work on and have a tendency to reinstall them around 6 months. I try to make portable versions of development tools as much possible, so I can easily continue my works after reinstalls ( at will or after system failures)
I work on making Android Studio Portable, through the proved IntelliJ-IDEA method of portability. I made the most of the work with simple environmental values and a few file modification.
Basic Setup
here is my start.bat file for basic settings. (same environment variables should work also for linux/mac in theory)
and "studio.4.1.1.properties" is just a modified version of "bin/idea.properties"
That is all needed and everything works (almost) perfect with no more effort.
Problem
The problem is the installation of plugins, at least of those that require a restart.
Whenever I try to install a plugin, it is downloaded and listed in the installed plugins tab, with the "requires restart" button. They are in fact really are downloaded as zipped files into "system/plugins" folder and marked to be installed with "action.script" file.
But after restart, none of these newly-installed plugins are really installed. trying to repeat the installation, everything goes into a loop of nightmare.
Temporary Solution
A solution for now is to go into "system/plugins" folder, and manually extract each downloaded file into "config/plugins" folder. And then next restart, they are all installed an ready to work on.
Tested Versions
I have tested few versions as old to date back 2017. (all zipped versions):
Comparison with IDEA
I have also downloaded different IntelliJ-IDEA versions to see if they have this problem (all zipped versions).
None of them had this plugin installation problem.
System Info
Build: AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283, 202011050241,
AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283, JRE 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b01x64 JetBrains s.r.o, OS Windows 10(amd64) v10.0 , screens 1920x1080, 1920x1080
AS: 4.1.1; Kotlin plugin: 1.3.72-release-Studio4.1-5; Android Gradle Plugin: 4.1.1; Gradle: 6.5; NDK: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found); LLDB: pinned revision 3.1 not found, latest from SDK: (package not found); CMake: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found), from PATH: (not found)
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