Error: The Android SDK folder can no longer be inside the application folder

[Group Member 32]

Hi,

I don't see where the application folder is on Windows 7 Ultimate x64?

A sdk directory is not in:

• C:\Users\Me\.AndroidStudioBeta
  
• C:\Users\Me\.android
  

And there is no Android Studio install directory in the Program Files. Where is the path this is referring to so that I may update Android Studio and fix this error?

[Xavier Ducrohet]

We are changing how we distribute the SDK by not placing it inside Studio anymore.

We are preparing:

- a Windows installer

- a first launch setup wizard inside Studio

to setup/download the SDK.

However this is not ready yet. So

- go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

- click "get the SDK for a standalone IDE" and download the SDK.

- Put it somewhere you have write access so that you can later add component to it.

- Link studio to this SDK location.

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[Siva Velusamy]

In order to figure out where Android Studio is installed, you can probably look for your studio launcher icon, and look at its location. The studio.exe file should be inside $installation/bin.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Group Member 32 <mypersona...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Bryan Herbst]

On Windows 7 and 8 it should live under C:\Users\[USErNAME]\AppData\Local\Android\android-studio\sdk

[IndicatorVeritatis]

I get the same error when trying to upgrade to the latest beta -- but I have had the SDK in my home directory, written as an absolute (not relative) path since long before I ever even installed Android Studio.

So the error message has got to be wrong, but I know of no way to get Android Studio to recognize where it is, even though both Eclipse and the SDK manager have no trouble finding it.

Could it have something to do with having to run Android Studio as super user to do the upgrade? My regular login (this is a Linux installation) does not have write permissions for the /opt directory, so I have to run as super user to get it past the error message of not having permissions to write to /opt.