Environment variable in settings.gradle not working with Android Studio

Question

I do have a multi-module project with a library project in a different root path. As illustration you can imagine something like this:

/projects_home/project         


        

Answer 1

Android Studio does read the environment variables. You can prove it by launching Android Studio from the shell in which those env. variables being specified instead of from X-window dash board.

The reason you did not have those variables is the X-window environment you were using did not read $HOME/.bashrc which contained those variables. This makes sense because bashrc is for Bash not X.

Assuming you are using GNOME or Unity, to launch Android Studio with those environment variables being specified, just modify the .desktop file of Android Studio (e.g. ~/.local/share/applications/android-studio.desktop):

Find this line:

Exec="/home/username/tools/android/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f

Change it to:

Exec=env LIB_ROOT=/libraries_home "/home/username/tools/android/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f

Note:

This modification just prepend env LIB_ROOT=/libraries_home to the original command. You must replace username with your own user name.

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