Android Studio - How to Change Android SDK Path

Question

When I open Android SDK Manager from Android Studio, the SDK Path displayed is:

\\android-studio\\sdk

I want to change th

Answer 1

Changing the sdk location in Project Settings will solve the problem partially. When Android Studio is used to download a new SDK, it will place the new SDK in the internal SDK folder (inside Android Studio).

Existing android developers will already have a large sdks folder (hereinafter referred to as external SDK folder) containing all the SDKs downloaded before Android Studio came around.

For Mac/Linux users though there is a good way out. Soft links!

Exit Android Studio and perform the following steps:

cp -r /sdk/ /
cd /
mv /sdk/ mv /sdk.orig
ln -s / sdk

And we're good to go. Launch SDK Manager after starting Android Studio, watch as it discovers all your existing SDKs like a charm :).