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

Actually, if you extract downloaded zip archive, system will never find it. You have to click in 'Download' tag, then in folder

%ANDROIDSDK%/system-images/android-25/

                                    ^^^ version of SDK you use

if google-api then additional folder 'google_apis' will be created .install file with the path, where archive is located. Usually it is

C:\Users[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Temp\PackageOperation01

Put there your zip archive and go to Download link again.

After that, it will not start download, but will start to check and unzip operation. This resolves offline installation issue.