How can I stop Android Studio Indexing/Scanning/Building altogether at startup?

Question

How can I stop this indexing or whatever this startup process? What is it for? Why is it doing it? Can I defer the loading of such huge process later on when I most need it?

Answer 1

I am learning android and I faced this issue today.

Android was indexing forever because I added wrong image file. I deleted that image and it's working fine now, if you fall into this, I suggest that you to check all recent files that were added to your project and replace them with the correct ones.