[android] How do I export an Android Studio project?

I just started using the Android Studio IDE and I already released and published a simple APK to Google Play store. The problem is that I did this at work. Now I downloaded the Android Studio at my home and I want to continue working and fixing bugs on my Project. I see that there is Import Project in the Android Studio home screen, but from where I export the project in order to import it? I tried Zipping my whole Project folder and import it but it didn't work very well.

Windows:

First Open Command Window and set location of your android studio project folder like:

D:\MyApplication>

then type below command in it:

gradlew clean

then wait for complete clean process. after complete it now zip your project like below:

• right click on your project folder
• then select send to option now
• select compressed via zip

As mentioned by other answers, as of now android studio does not provide this out of the box. However, there are ways to do this easily.

As mentioned by @Elad Lavi, you should consider cloud hosting of your source code. Checkout github, bitbucket, gitlab, etc. All these provide private repositories, some free, some not.

If all you want is to just zip the sources, you can achieve this using git's git archive. Here are the steps:

git init       # on the root of the project folder
git add .      # note: android studio already created .gitignore
git commit -m 'ready to zip sources'
git archive HEAD --format=zip > /tmp/archive.zip

Note: If you intend to send this by email, you have to remove gradlew.bat from zip file.

Both these solutions are possible thanks to VCS like git.

Source control is best way to handle this problem, if you don't want to pay then try bitbucket

It's free, allows private repo for upto 5 members team.

It seems as if Android Studio is missing some features Eclipse has (which is surprising considering the choice to make Android Studio official IDE).

Eclipse had the ability to export zip files which could be sent over email for example. If you zip the folder from your workspace, and try to send it over Gmail for example, Gmail will refuse because the folder contains executable. Obviously you can delete files but that is inefficient if you do that frequently going back and forth from work.

Here's a solution though: You can use source control. Android Studio supports that. Your code will be stored online. A git will do the trick. Look under "VCS" in the top menu in Android Studio. It has many other benefits as well. One of the downsides though, is that if you use GitHub for free, your code is open source and everyone can see it.

Apparently, there's a lot of "dead wood" in the "build" directories of a project.

Under linux/unix, a simple way to get a clean, private backup is to use the "tar" command along with the "--exclude=String" option.

For example, to create an archive of all my apps while excluding the build directories, I have a script that creates the following 2 commands :

cd $HOME/android/Studio
tar cvf MyBackup-2017-07-13.tar Projects --exclude=build

For Android Studio below 4.1:

From the Top menu Click File and then click Export to Zip File

For Android Studio 4.1 and above:

From the Top menu click File > Manage IDE Settings > Export to Zip File ()