Friday, June 27, 2014

Android Studio 0.8 beta: where is the menu item for Android SDK Manager

Google released the Android Studio beta 0.8.

It is said developer can not apply this update to version 0.6, and need to download the latest version 0.8 and install it directly.

That was what I did today. But I also removed the older version, and did not import the settings of version 0.6.

In the new version, when I first looked for the Android SDK Manager under "Tools" I could not see it in the dropdown list.

I was wondering where the menu item is hidden, and tried to find it out, because I need to install other SDKs.

So I checked several menu and did not find it.

After a while I realized it may be hidden at the end of the drop down list and it would not be seen under "Tool".

In Preferences -> Menu and Toolbars ->  Main Menu ->Tools, there is an item "Android". Under this item, there are  AVD Manager, SDK Manager, Android Device Monitor, etc..

In the right pane of the Preference Window, there are buttons allowing user to move up, move down, buttons. I moved the item "Android" up close to its parent node "Tools".

But I still could not see the item "Android" under "Tools".

OK, now I have moved the item "Android" to the first child node position under "Tools", and I have run the SDK manager from Android Studio startup window, and I can see the item "Android" from the dropdown menu of "Tools".

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