Android studio doesn't start

Question

I just download Android Studio for Windows 7, the wizard went ok up to the end but now when I click on the shortcut or on the .exe to start the program nothing happens, no e

Answer 1

If your path and/or environment variables are not pointing to the correct JDK, things won't work properly.

A rock solid solution, especially if you must have multiple JDKs installed (e.g. Java 6/7/8) is to create a batch file to launch Android Studio.

Create a new file called studio.bat and place this somewhere outside the Android Studio installation, e.g.

c:\mydevstuff\launchers\studio.bat

(if you put the batch file anywhere in the android-studio folder, then you'll have problems when updating Android Studio).

Put the following code in the new batch file:

@echo off

REM Can make paths relative to SCRIPT_PATH if necessary
set SCRIPT_PATH=%~dp0

set ANDROID_STUDIO_JDK=
set JAVA_HOME=
set PATH=\bin;%PATH%
cd \bin
start studio64.exe

Replace studio64.exe with studio.exe if you need the 32-bit version.

Replace

with the path to your JDK, e.g.

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25

Replace

with the path to your Android Studio installation, e.g.

C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio

Now you can just run the batch file to start Android Studio.

Additional: If you want to pin to the Taskbar, then create a shortcut to the batch file and then change it's target to:

cmd.exe /c "\studio.bat"

Then pin this shortcut to the Taskbar by drag-and-drop.

You can also set it's icon from the original Android Studio studio.exe file.