Android Studio Developer Tools Documentation Out of Date/Unusable, Unable to contribute/build [248536235]

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st...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Sep 23, 2022 02:49PM

Documentation guiding users though contributing/building against Android Studio found here seems very out of date.

Following the instructions at that site result in an inoperable build state. Further, the 'groups' link that users are directed to has had no activity or posts for 2 years, suggesting it has been moved.

Issues with building from the indicated branch (studio-master-dev) result in numerous issues including:

Improper JDK references in numerous (40+) .iml files.
Out of date Kotlin plugin references: Project 'Android Studio (studio-4.1-dev)' requires plugin 'Kotlin' version '1.3.99' or lower, but '222-1.7.10-release-334-IJ3739.54' is installed. Kotlin 1.3.99 is pre-Aug 2020
Missing lib references or references to 'undocumented' packages. Ex; com.android.commands.am.InstrumentationData
Ant builds on Windows fail on line 1.
D:/../<project>/tools/vendor/google, D:/../<project>/tools/vendor/google3/blaze, and D:/../<project>/tools/vendor/intellij/cidr all load with invalid git mappings.
Numerous other broken class path errors and problems.
Attempts to build on Windows show > 60 problems in Project Structure and > 100 on Mac.

I've tried to manually resolve all of the above issues, but the missing/unidentified packages is a big stopping point. I've done a search through all provided jar files contained in the project repo, but can't identify the location. If there are updated instructions, where can they be found?

Studio Build: latest from repo sync Version of Gradle Plugin: n/a Version of Gradle: n/a Version of Java: prebuild/studio/jdk/jdk11/[mac|win] OS: Mac ARM and Windows 10

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jv...@google.com <jv...@google.com> Sep 23, 2022 02:50PM

Assigned to an...@google.com.

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #2Sep 23, 2022 04:15PM

Forgot to mention that Ant build targets also fail on Mac as well. bazel targets all also fail with errors re invalid references to /tools/google3/...

di...@gmail.com <di...@gmail.com> #3Oct 10, 2022 05:06AM

Encountered the same issue.Need official support

vi...@gmail.com <vi...@gmail.com> #4Oct 18, 2022 01:35PM

Hello，I have build Android Studio source code with IDEA(IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.3.3 x64)on windows.I want to know how to release the android studio I built,because someone else need to use the features I add to the Android Studio。

Message last modified on Oct 18, 2022 01:45PM

s3...@gmail.com <s3...@gmail.com> #5Nov 4, 2022 05:42PM

How you was able to build it? How did you overcome all the errors from description of this issue? Can you describe it?

je...@gmail.com <je...@gmail.com> #6Nov 29, 2022 01:08AM

i have this problem now.

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #7Dec 1, 2022 08:58PM

Ping? If you've managed to build it from the instructions, mind sharing with the rest of us?

pi...@linaro.org <pi...@linaro.org> #8Feb 2, 2023 10:17AM

At Linaro, in Windows on Arm team, we are working to help open source projects for this platform. We spent some efforts to investigate Android Studio, and alas, we found it was not possible to build it (using Linux/x64).

Following this project, we managed to build the first part: bazel build //tools/adt/idea/android:artifacts.

But alas, it was not possible to load the existing IDEA project after, saying some plugins were missing. Building with build_studio.sh fails too, with... cryptic errors.

The fact Android Studio uses some closed sources should not be a blocker to be able to build an open version of it, and would allow anyone to contribute.

Could you consider creating a repo manifest (with correct instructions) that works for open source contributors?

Message last modified on Feb 2, 2023 10:18AM

va...@adyen.com <va...@adyen.com> #9Mar 24, 2023 04:51PM

Any update on this one? To add on top of that, it doesn't seems to be possible to build Android Gradle Plugin under ARM Mac.

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am...@google.com <am...@google.com> #10Sep 14, 2023 06:49PM

Reassigned to je...@google.com.

Jerome, do you know if this page or the adt-dev@ group is still maintained? Thanks!

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #11Oct 3, 2023 10:56PM

Bump 1 year anniversary. Any news? Started from scratch recently and the current build seems to break with this new error:

ERROR: /home/user/dev/studio-master-dev/prebuilts/studio/jdk/BUILD:56:1: no such package 'tools/vendor/google/android-ndk': BUILD file not found in any of the following directories. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package.
 - /home/user/dev/studio-master-dev/tools/vendor/google/android-ndk and referenced by '//prebuilts/studio/jdk:jni_headers'
ERROR: Analysis of target '//tools/adt/idea/android:artifacts' failed; build aborted: no such package 'tools/vendor/google/android-ndk': BUILD file not found in any of the following directories. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package.
 - /home/user/dev/studio-master-dev/tools/vendor/google/android-ndk

li...@linaro.org <li...@linaro.org> #12Feb 7, 2024 09:26AM

Hello,

We are looking to enable key projects for Windows on Arm and this enabling this project greatly for the ecosystem. Could someone help take a look at this errors?

Thanks,
Lina

ma...@microsoft.com <ma...@microsoft.com> #13Oct 15, 2024 02:16PM

Adding another ping here. We want to invest developer effort to improve this product but that is blocked without the ability to build.
Any input would be welcome.

Marcus

je...@google.com <je...@google.com> #14Oct 15, 2024 02:35PM

Reassigned to ss...@google.com.

Scott, this seems like an area that needs a lot of love. We should revamp this so instructions to checkout and build and eventually contribute are up to date.

ss...@google.com <ss...@google.com> Oct 16, 2024 02:19PM

Accepted by ss...@google.com.

ss...@google.com <ss...@google.com> #15Oct 17, 2024 05:33PM

I'll be looking at this but won't be able to until November.

in...@gmail.com <in...@gmail.com> #16Dec 14, 2024 11:38PM

Hehe

da...@autodesk.com <da...@autodesk.com> #17Dec 27, 2024 10:55PM

Hello folks, I would love to contribute here, would anyone from Google who can build the Android Studio IDE help us?
I'm interested in adding filtering capabilities to the network inspector and sending it for review.
Thanks.

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #18Jan 27, 2025 08:18PM

Well, November has come and gone and after 2 and a half years of no activity, I feel like it's safe to say Google isn't interested in Community support or involvement on this one and that's really unfortunate. If we could just get this closed and marked WAI, that'd be great for everyone I think.

is...@google.com <is...@google.com> Mar 21, 2025 07:49AM

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