Aurimas Liutikas | 38d7d17 | 2018-06-26 15:20:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # Guide for setting up a separate profile for Android Studio |
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| 3 | It can be helpful to have a separate profile of Android Studio when |
| 4 | working on AndroidX as we use prebuilts of an SDK instead of public SDK. |
| 5 | Launching Studio with a custom idea.properties files allows to |
| 6 | have a separate profile of Android Studio for work with AndroidX. |
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| 8 | To use this launch Studio with setting STUDIO_PROPERTIES env variable to point |
| 9 | to idea.properties in this checkout that sets custom `idea.config.path` and |
| 10 | `idea.system.path`. `sample-androidx-canary.desktop` is an example Linux desktop |
| 11 | shortcut entry. |
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| 13 | [More details on this on Jetbrains website](https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207240985-Changing-IDE-default-directories-used-for-config-plugins-and-caches-storage?page=2) |