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

On Windows 10:

1. Download the file from e.g.: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-27_r09.zip.
   2. Extract the zipped file.
   3. Copy (OR Cut, not recommended) the contents of the extracted folder e.g.: x86.
   4. Find the android-sdk folder. By default, it should be located at C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.
   5. Look for a folder named system-images. Create system-images if it doesn't exist. Depending on the file you downloaded, create subfolders within system-images. E.g.: system-images->android-27->google_apis.
   6. Paste within google_apis.
   7. Restart Android Studio and the system image should be selectable.

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