The following is NOT NECESSARILY a good way around un- and re-installing AS (original post 9/2/18 about 5pm EDT): The last one (sdk n) will have later folder dates than the others. The original sdk and sdk ? ( ? = 1,2,3., n) contain different numbers of identically-named folders depending on options selected in each installation. Rather than un- and re-install, I always try to figure out a way to get around this iffy proccess. Uninstalling AS, removing folders, and reinstalling AS is a lot of time and stress and what about customizations? Is it guaranteed they'll all be saved? A power user will have a whole lot of different types relating to different parts of the IDE, including IntellIJ IDEA/JetBrains. If not, I'd assume it's safe to delete, or update any other paths you may have to the new one.Įdit: I have just tried reinstalling Android Studio without uninstalling the old version, and the defaults it gives me include a 1 as a suffix:

I'd then try renaming the one not mentioned here to something different and see if there are any adverse effects whilst using it for a few days. In here it'll tell you the path actually being used: To find out what is actually being used, go to Configure, then SDK Manager. As such, I'd assume only one of your folders is being used and is required, and the other is just a previous installation. Only one SDK folder is present after applying all the updates. It simply appears that each time the SDK is installed, it will create a new, incremented folder from the last.

Each time the sdk package isĭownloaded, the entire folder is enumerated under your Android installĪdditionally, this link at shows someone having an issue installing the SDK, and having 6 different folders for this: Studio and then another path variable for the platform-tools directory It (suprised Android didn't do this for me) after downloading the A question on StackOverflow has a somewhat useful comment on this:Īs of today (), the standard download in comes with the sdk (but you can also use that link to find

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