android studio refuses to work

penguin_herder · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 4

Hello

I'm trying to get Android Studio to work but it simply refuses to cooperate and I'm slowly running out of ideas.

emerge android-studio worked perfectly fine

Then I run `android-studio` from the console which brings up the first run wizard.

The first small issue is with downloading all the necessary plugins - it seems to work fine, however after everything has finished downloading the window becomes frozen, only `kill pid` helps.

After the kill, when trying to run android-studio again, the wizard shows up again, but it doesn't require me to download anything, everything goes smoothly until I get to this window and this error.

https://ibb.co/gWQCUJ

At this point I can create a new project and fiddle with the configuration, but I cannot open an existing project and therefore I cannot write anything. Even if I create a new project, all the files are created but no actual IDE comes up and every time I'm left with the same error.

pilla · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:54 pm Post subject:

Have you taken a look at the wiki entry here? It looks like there is some homework to do before installing Android Studio on Gentoo.
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penguin_herder · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 4

I have.

I have enabled virtualisation in bios, compiled kernel with kvm-intel module, added myself to a kvm group and double checked /dev/kvm permissions.
I have also installed qemu, but from what I understand it was unnecessary as android-studio downloads it's own qemu binaries.

All these steps, as well as the troubleshooting section in the article you linked, focus on issues with emulator and virtual devices, however I can't get this far. I can't get the actual IDE working properly.

Here comes an entry from the android-studio logs

steveL · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:54 pm Post subject:

Ew that's horrible; it requires a "/prebuilts/studio/jdk/linux" path to exist on the machine, presumably with their jdk installation in binary format..

Well since it's gentoo, you are root, so I guess you could provide the path.
A nicer option might be to edit the string in the file, and make it point to a path under /usr, if you can do that. man strings comes to mind.

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

I set up Android Studio years ago, before the wiki.

On the one hand, I'm not using KVM. On the other hand, I haven't used Android Studio since Cyanogenmod folded, and at that time I was building KitKat ROM images. So if requirements have changed, I may have a non-functional setup. There were instructions at the time, but I got them from Cyangenmod and translated them to Gentoo.

When I find time, maybe I can fire off another KitKat build, to see if it still works. It won't find the Cyanogenmod repositories, but my last build was after they'd already shut down, and the build still ran to completion.
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penguin_herder · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 4

is this what you reckon? literally "/prebuilts/studio/jdk/linux" must be present? I thought there was something missing in front of it, some env variable as it would be too stupid for an application to require "/prebuilts" branch straight of the root.

Anyway... it turned out that the company responsible for the IDE (not google, the one that actually made it) allows to download it's application for free if for android development. It provides essentially the same functionality as android studio, which makes sense since it's the same application. However, unlike google's android-studio, it seems to just work, so I'm gonna stick with this one.

Thanks

steveL · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:40 pm Post subject:

johngalt · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:25 pm Post subject:

Per https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/ It's jetbrains' IntelliJ IDEA IDE:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

If you scroll down you'll find both a paid version as well as a Community version with a limited featureset.

Here is a feature comparison between paid and OSS: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html

And here is a link to current Beta: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/
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penguin_herder · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 4

johngalt · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 5:03 am Post subject:

If you're anything like me, the minute you got it working you left the forums and started setting it up and getting your projects back in shape

So, I figured I'd lend a hand

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steveL · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:47 pm Post subject:

Nice one, cheers :-)

Adasss · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 16

I wonder if anyone is still experiencing this problem.
I'm using Android Studio for a few months on a daily basis and I haven't seen it.

Also I've tried (for curiosity) Intellij IDEA as a replacement for Android Studio and I wouldn't advise it to anyone as such. It seems to miss too many features from Android Studio and shows too many problems (like some false warnings).

GenieSpark · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2019 Posts: 3

Android Studio is android targeted unlike Intellij IDEA

willeponken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2019 Posts: 1

Sorry for the bump, but I got this problem after I ran: