Removing Android Studio

In the unlikely event you should ever have to remove Android Studio, these are the steps for doing that. Keep in mind that as Google updates Android Studio, these steps may not longer be complete.

macOS

  1. Open the Terminal app.

  2. Paste in the following list of commands:

rm -Rf /Applications/Android\ Studio.app
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/Google/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.android.*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.android.*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/Google/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/.AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/AndroidStudioProjects
rm -Rf ~/.gradle
rm -Rf ~/.android
rm -Rf ~/Library/Android*
rm -Rf ~/.emulator_console_auth_token

  1. Press Return

Windows

  1. Open the Control Panel and under Programs, select Uninstall a Program.

  2. Click on Android Studio and press Uninstall. If you have multiple versions, uninstall them as well.

  3. In File Explorer, go to your user folder (%USERPROFILE%), and delete .android, .AndroidStudio and any analogous directories with versions on the end, i.e. .AndroidStudio1.2, as well as .gradle and .m2 if they exist.

  4. Go to %APPDATA% and delete the JetBrains directory.

  5. Delete the any AndroidStudio* directories that are in %LOCALAPPDATA%Google and %APPDATA%Google.

  6. C:Program Files and delete the Android directory.

  7. Delete any remains of the SDK by going to %LOCALAPPDATA% and deleting the Android directory.

  8. Android Studio creates projects in a folder %USERPROFILE%AndroidStudioProjects, which you may want to delete.