Android Studio updates taking forever

Question

I\'m seeing extremely slow installs of system image updates on my Android Studio 3.0 running on a macOS High Sierra system. What do I mean by \"extremely slow\"? Every system im

Answer 1

I've the same issue.

As you said, deleting the current SDK version and reinstalling it from scratch is faster (only download time is the variable here).

I've looked for an issue for this and since I didn't find one I decided to create it here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/79307669

feel free to star it.

I doubt this is related to the version of Android Studio so I invite you to write in comment of that issue some information on your system:

• Android Studio version,
• Java version,
• OS,
• CPU,
• RAM (and how much of it used for Android Studio JVM),
• Type of Disk Storage (Magnetic / Solid drive)
• Filesystem

in the hope we find some common variable that can cause the issue.

This is mine: AS 3.2 Canary 13, OS Linux (Ubuntu 64 bit 16.04 LTS), CPU: Intel i7, RAM 16 GB (-Xmx4g), Storage Magnetic Drive (not solid), Filesystem: Ext4