Android SDK location should not contain whitespace as this cause problems with NDK tools

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Recently I have installed the last version of Android Studio  Android Studio 2 1   keeping the old 1 2 version  previously installed  Now i have Android Studio 2 1 and Android Studio 1 2  In Android Studio 1 2 when I click on SDK Manager it works properly  but in Andorid Studio 2 1 this problem appears   how can I fix keeping the two versions of Android studio  Thanks

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Copy your SDK folder and paste it in another folder without spaces  for example   D    Android   Sdk    then open the SDK Manager  and change the Android SDK Location to the location of your new SDK folder

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As long as you aren t using the NDK you can just ignore that warning   By the way  This warning has nothing to do with parallel installations

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Just remove white space of all folders present in the given path for example Program Files You can remove it by following steps-  Open elevated cmd  In the command prompt execute   mklink  J C  Program-Files  C  Program Files  This will remove space and replace it with  -   Better do this with both sdk and jdk path  This works

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There is another way    Open up CMD  as Administrator  Type  mklink  J C  Program-Files  C  Program Files   Or in my case mklink  J C  Program-Files- x86   C  Program Files  x86    Hit enter Magic happens   Check your C drive    Now you can point to C  Program-Files  C  Program-Files- x86

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I just wanted to add a solution for Mac users since this is the top article that comes up for searches related to this issue  If you have macOS 10 13 or later you can make use of APFS Space Sharing   Open Disk Utility Click Partition Click Add Volume -- no need to Partition as we are adding an APFS volume which shares space within the current partition container  Give the volume a name  without spaces  Click Add You can now mount this drive like any other via Terminal  cd  Volumes  lt your volume name gt  Create an empty folder in the new volume -- I called mine sdk You can now select the volume and directory while installing Android Studio

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just change the path    c  program files android sdk  to  c  progra 1 android sdk  or  c  program files  x86  android sdk  to  c  progra 2 android sdk    note that the paths should not contain spaces

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As the warning message states  the SDK location should not contain whitespace   Your SDK is at C  Users Giacomo B AppData Local Android sdk  There is a whitespace character in Giacomo B   The easiest solution is to move the SDK somewhere else  where there is no space or other whitespace character in the path  such as C  Android sdk  You can point both Android Studio installations to the new location

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Simply    If you are not using NDK  there is no problem at all  On the other this is just warning not an error  With warning you can go ahead but not errors  Any it s better to adjust the whitespaces  E g if your SDK is at C  program file Android studio  There is a whitespaces  program file   There are 2 simple methods  1  Remove the whitespaces 2  Install at another location which don t have whitespaces

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I have the same error  make some change in the path C  Users Juan Jose App---- to  C  Users JUAN 1 App     CMD Command  Windows  go to root c  Users Type de command DIR  X Here show a Short name of Juan Jose Reemplace the name Juan Jose with the Short Name give it

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It is possible to make a symbolic link from e g  C  Android sdk to the actual location of the sdk  which contains whitespaces   and refer to this symbolic link from within Android Studio as the location of the SDK  I have  however  not tried whether NDK will work with such a setup  even though Android Studio stops giving this warning about whitespaces

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Just change      C  Users Giacomo B AppData Local Android sdk   to     C  Users Giacomo B AppData Local Android sdk

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