Possible to change where Android Virtual Devices are saved

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I ve set up the Android SDK and Eclipse on my machine running Windows XP and AVDs  Android Virtual Devices  are saved to  Documents and Settings user  android  by default   Is there any way to change this behavior   I have all of the other components saved in a directory on a separate partition and would like everything to be consolidated   Obviously not a huge deal but does anyone here know a workaround for this

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In Windows 10 I had that problem because My C Drive was getting full and I had needed free Space, AVD folder had 14 gig space so I needed move that folder to another driver,first answer not work for Me so I tested another way to fix this problem, I make a picture for you if you have the same problem, you dont need to move all of files in .android folder to another drive (this way not work) just move avd folders in ....android\avd to another drive and open .ini files and change avd folder path from that file to new path. Like this image:

I Hope this works for you.

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Move your  android to wherever you want it to   Then  create a symlink like this     In your home folder   ln -s  path to  android      This simply tells Linux that whenever the path    android is referenced by any application  link it to  path to  android

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1 - Move AVD to new Folder  2 - start Menu   Control Panel   System   Advanced System Settings  on the left    Environment Variables Add a new user variable  Variable name  ANDROID AVD HOME Variable value  a path to a directory of your choice  3 - Change the file  INI Set new folder   4 - Open Android Studio  WORKS - Windows 2010  MORE INSTRUCTIONS   https   developer android com studio command-line variables

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I think the easiest way is to move the avd folder from C  Users USER  android folder to your desired location then create a symbolic link to it in C  Users USER  android with the same name   If you wonder how to do this  first install Link Shell Extension  After folder movement right click on it and select Pick Link Source then right click in  android folder and in Drop As    sub menu select Symbolic Link

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I followed https   www mysysadmintips com windows clients 761-move-android-studio-avd-folder-to-a-new-location   Start copying a folder  quot C  Users user  android avd quot  to  quot D  Android  android avd quot   or something else    Close Android Studio and running emulators   Press Win   Break and open Advanced System Settings  Then press Environment Variables  Add a user variable ANDROID SDK HOME   I didn t experiment with ANDROID AVD HOME   In Variable value field write D  Android  If you also moved SDK to another folder  change ANDROID HOME  I forgot to change it and some emulators didn t launch  see https   stackoverflow com a 57408085 2914140    Wait until the folder will finish copying and start Android Studio   Open Android Virtual Device Manager and see a list of emulators  If you don t see emulators and they existed  then probably you entered wrong path into user variable value in step 3  In this case close AS  change the variable and open AS again   Start any emulator  It will try to restore it s state  but it sometimes fails  A black screen can appear instead of Android wallpaper   In this case you can  a  Restart your emulator  To do this close running emulator  then in AVD Manager click Cold Boot Now     b  If this didn t help  open emulator settings  found in file  quot D  Android  android avd Pixel API 27 ini quot    Change a path to a new AVD folder  Restart the emulator   Delete old AVD folder from  quot C  Users user  android avd quot

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Based on official documentation https   developer android com studio command-line variables html you should change ANDROID AVD HOME environment var      Emulator Environment Variables       By default  the emulator stores configuration files under    HOME  android  and AVD data under  HOME  android avd   You can   override the defaults by setting the following environment variables    The emulator -avd  command searches the avd directory in the   order of the values in  ANDROID AVD HOME     ANDROID SDK HOME  android avd   and  HOME  android avd   For emulator   environment variable help  type emulator -help-environment at the   command line  For information about emulator command-line options  see   Control the Emulator from the Command Line          ANDROID EMULATOR HOME  Sets the path to the user-specific emulator    configuration directory  The default location is    ANDROID SDK HOME  android      ANDROID AVD HOME   Sets the path to the    directory that contains all AVD-specific files  which mostly consist    of very large   disk images  The default location is     ANDROID EMULATOR HOME avd     You might want to specify a new location    if the default location is   low on disk space       After change or set ANDROID AVD HOME you will have to move all content inside  user  android avd  to your new location and change path into ini file of each emulator  just replace it with your new path

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Go to the Android tools directory  Edit the android bat command file  At about the end of the command file  find a line similar to  call  java exe  -Djava ext dirs  java ext dirs  -Dcom android sdkmanager toolsdir   tools dir   -Dcom android sdkmanager workdir   work dir   -jar  jar path       and replace  call  java exe    with  call  java exe  -Duser home  your prefer dir    where  your prefer dire  is your preferred directory without braces but add doublequotes   e g    call  java exe  -Duser home  E  Program Files  x86  android-sdk-windows

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The environmental variable ANDROID AVD HOME can be used to define the directory in which the AVD Manager shall look for AVD INI files and can therefore be used to change the location of the virtual devices   The default value is  USERPROFILE   android avd on Windows  or    android avd on Linux    One can also create a link for the whole directory  USERPROFILE   android on Windows  or a sym-link for directory    android on Linux    When moving AVDs  the path entry in AVD INI file needs to be updated accordingly

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For Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10  Copy C  Users YOURUSERNAME  android folder to  for example  E  avd  Open the environment variables window    Go into Settings and click on System  On the left  click About and select System info at the bottom  In the new window  click Advanced system settings on the left  Click Environment Variables at the bottom of the resulting window    Add a new variable    Variable name  ANDROID SDK HOME Variable value  a path to a directory  e g E  avd    Don t include  android in the variable value   Restart Visual Studio   For change SDK  amp  NDK location go to      Tools -  Options -  Xamarin -  Android Setting

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In my case  what I concerned about is the C  drive disk space  So what I did is copy the   avd  folder not file  to other drive  and leave the   ini  file there but change it to point to the moved

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Variable name  ANDROID SDK HOME Variable value  C  Users User Name  worked for me

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ANDROID SDK HOME also worked for me on Windows 8 x64 also find all location  in my case it was d   android  and delete it  You won t need it anymore

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Check this out  using the android command to create avd you can specify where to place files   -p --path     Location path of the directory where the new AVD will be created

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Please take note of the following   modifying android bat in the Android tools directory  as suggested in a previous answer  may lead to problems   If you do so  in order to legitimately have your  android directory located to a non-default location then there may be an inconsistency between the AVDs listed by Android Studio  using  Tools   Android   AVD Manager   and the AVDs listed by sdk command line tool  android avd    I suppose that Android Studio  with its internal AVD Manager  does not use the android bat modified path   it relies on the ANDROID SDK HOME variable to locate AVDs   My own tests have shown that Android tools correctly use the ANDROID SDK HOME variable   Therefore  there is no point  as far as I know  in modifying android bat  and using the environment variable should be preferred

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Add a new user environment variable  Windows 7    Start Menu   Control Panel   System   Advanced System Settings  on the left    Environment Variables Add a new user variable  at the top  that points your home user directory      Variable name  ANDROID SDK HOME Variable value    a path to a directory of your choice      AVD Manager will use this directory to save its  android directory into it   For those who may be interested  I blogged about my first foray into Android development    Android  Hello World   a Tale of Woe  Alternatively  you can use the Rapid Environment Editor to set the environment variables

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Another way to specify ANDROID SDK HOME without messing around with environment variables  especially when using ec2  is simply create a shortcut of eclipse and add the following as target  C  Windows System32 cmd exe  C  setx ANDROID SDK HOME YOUR AVD PATH  M  amp  YOUR ECLIPSE EXE PATH   This will set ANDROID SDK HOME as system variable whenever you launch eclipse   HTH Paul

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In AVD manager  after setting up AVD using a target with Google APIs  on run was getting error       Detail showed   AVD Unknown target  Google Inc  Google APIs            During install  on Win7 system  I had chosen a SDK directory location  instead of accepting C  Users     I d then added that directory to environment variable  path  Command line  android list targets did show a couple of Google apis   Setting ANDROID SDK HOME to my install path fixed the avd run error

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MacOs Get a directory adv     emulator -help-datadir   the default directory is    Users  your computer user name   android   and then Go to avd Folder edit  ini file with path to your custom emulator directory example       path  Volumes Macintos  emulatorandroid avd Nexus 5X API 27 avd       path rel avd Nexus 5X API 27 avd       target android-27   and then save  Now your Emulator haschange    And Result

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Modify the file  virtual android2 2 ini  in  C  Documents and Settings your windows login  android avd     target android-8 path E  android workspace avd virtual android2 2 avd   And move the folder  virtual android2 2 avd  from  C  Documents and Settings your windows login  android avd   into  E  android workspace avd

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You can change the  ini file for the new AVD   target android-7 path C  Users username  android avd VIRTUAL DEVICE NAME avd   I don t know how to specify where the  ini file should be stored

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there are major 4 steps 1  copy the  android folder to your desired location as i did in D  Android  android 2  set ANDROID AVD HOME in environment variables like ANDROID AVD HOME D  Android  android avd 3  change avd name ini file contents with new location like  avd ini encoding UTF-8 path D  Android  android avd Pixel 2 API 29 avd path rel avd Pixel 2 API 29 avd target android-29 4  restart android studio

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