android studio - manually download system image for emulator

Question

Good day,I\'m a student and I\'m trying to create a virtual device in Android Studio, however my home internet is too slow to download a System Image, there is an internet c

Answer 1

In mac OSX:

~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-[API_VERSION]/[API_TYPE]/x86

Replace [API_VERSION] with Android version you are downloading and the [API_TYPE] can either be google_apis_playstore or google_apis depending on whether the image you are downloading comes with Google Play or not.