Android studio offline installation

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My windows XP development environment has no internet access. So I need to install Android Studio without internet connection. (Formerly I used 1-2 months IntelliJ IDEA 12 for android development)

The steps I made:

I downloaded studio 0.2.x installation files from developer site (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html).
I downloaded JDK and installed.
I already installed Android SDK package installer, downloaded API files and installed that files by using this package installer. (http://siddharthbarman.com/apd/)

I tried to create new project. I get "gradle" error. It seems like gradle is bundled inside studio but because of error exists, I downloaded gradle-1.6.zip from their website. (http://www.gradle.org/downloads) I added gradle\bin to my PATH environment variable.

Then I still get new errors that maven is missing. It seems like I need to download maven but I even don't know the version.

Can you write step by step that how many more programs / libraries should I download to get Hello world from Android studio and Android emulator ?

Note: I download files from a machine that has internet connection, copy them to flash disk and move to my development machine.

just try running the update.. go online by all means.. and how do you download anyway? — Francis Fuerte, Jul 17 '13 at 14:34
maybe there is something wrong with your installation or something?.. and just try downloading everything here is to download :P — Francis Fuerte, Jul 17 '13 at 14:38
As you see from Siva's answer I need internet connection on that machine. So I gave up from Android Studio. I returned back to Intellij Idea. — trante, Aug 22 '13 at 11:46
Have you tried what says here? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18158034/how-to-setup-android-studio-to-work-completely-offline — David Conde, Sep 01 '13 at 20:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '13 at 15:15

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There is no need to download Maven. Android Studio only uses Gradle. However, the first time you build your project, you'd need to have a internet connection so that the Android Gradle plugin and all its dependencies are downloaded and cached on your local disk. With an active internet connection, do:

$ cd /path/to/project
$ /path/to/gradle assembleDebug

Once that works, then you shouldn't need an internet connection.

Android Studio will eventually support such an offline mode.

answered Jul 17 '13 at 15:15

Siva Velusamy

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I can download dependencies from another machine and copy them with flash disk. I can also install studio to a machine having internet connection, then I can copy relevant files/folders from machine with internet to machine without internet. – trante Jul 17 '13 at 15:24

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 17:16

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Android Studio 0.4.0 now includes support for offline:

http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio040released

"You can now open the Compiler > Gradle options and enable Offline mode, which will tell Gradle to ignore update-to-date checks"

answered Jan 28 '14 at 17:16

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score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 22 '13 at 12:47

It doesn't work offline for creating new projects, so this is what I do and it works 100% offline!

Download Gradle and setup Environment variables
Create/Load project in Eclipse
File > Export
Select 'Generate Gradle build files'
Select project
Open AndroidStudio or IntelliJ13
Import project
Select 'Create project from existing sources'
Done!

But I preferred to use 'android create project' command, then setup 'build.gradle' file manually.

Android studio offline installation

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