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

score 48 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '16 at 14:18

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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.

answered May 05 '16 at 14:18

Bryan Herbst

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It is merely a warning, not an error. If you aren't using the NDK it will be fine. It is an easy enough fix though, so I would still recommend correcting it. – Bryan Herbst May 07 '16 at 13:16
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And how can you do this on mac if the default mac hard drive is called Macintosh HD? – Braian Mellor Dec 28 '16 at 18:49
@BraianMellor: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847695/how-do-i-safely-rename-my-mac-hardrive-macintosh-hd – Bryan Herbst Dec 28 '16 at 19:53
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I know how to change the name, but that is not even an option for me, this is a problem for Android Studio. It will break almost every link that I have to the hard drive. Already try it and this is not a solution for me. Thanks any way – Braian Mellor Dec 28 '16 at 19:59
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I'm sorry but it's not easiest solution, actually it's one of hardest solutions. – Mehdi Dehghani Oct 06 '18 at 16:26
You save my day <3 – Tagi Mar 08 '19 at 19:08
Guess i just need to reinstall Android Studio, whish there was a faster way. – Jesper Hustad Jul 22 '21 at 21:33

score 37 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '17 at 07:38

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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)).

answered Nov 18 '17 at 07:38

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Very useful. Does not require moving files, nor changing user's profile, nor using "old-msdos-style directory names" :-) – Erenor Paz May 15 '18 at 12:15
very clean,short and concise – Ajani Timothy Jul 25 '22 at 00:39

score 14 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 02 '16 at 14:23

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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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answered Oct 02 '16 at 11:02

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This doesn't work in Android STudio 2.2.2 as it "corrects" it to the full path. – David Murdoch Jan 31 '17 at 21:08

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 05 '17 at 23:26

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.

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered May 05 '16 at 14:16

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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.

answered May 05 '16 at 14:16

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What can I do to fix ? – Giacomo Brunetta May 07 '16 at 13:08

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 07 '16 at 09:02

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.

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 16 '18 at 16:25

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.

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered May 18 '22 at 10:08

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your sdk file path does not have whitespace like this./abc aaa/sdk it like ./abc_aaa/sdk this.

answered May 18 '22 at 10:08

Rohit Kajavadra

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 24 '20 at 14:26

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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

answered Mar 24 '20 at 14:26

Faizullah Anwar

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered May 21 '20 at 03:14

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Just change

C:\Users\Giacomo B\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

to

C:\Users\Giacomo_B\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

answered May 21 '20 at 03:14

Hidden Song

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 23:53

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/<your_volume_name>
Create an empty folder in the new volume -- I called mine sdk
You can now select the volume and directory while installing Android Studio

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 10 '22 at 14:18

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you know that this is does not do anything with your java and xml. It only affect the ndk which is for native apps or to use c++/c. so if you are just using java and xml or even kotlin there is no side effect with that thing

answered Sep 10 '22 at 14:18

Mikyas Tewodros

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score -2 · Answer 13 · answered Jul 03 '18 at 13:28

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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