I looked around in some of the other menus and didn’t find anything obvious ( Tools has an Android submenu, but it’s just for launching the AVD Manager, SDK Manager, Monitor, or enabling / disabling ADB Integration). Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything here. The first place I looked for changing this was in the Preferences section. What I really wanted to do was point Android Studio at the same version of the SDK I was using elsewhere.

This might be fine if I was ready to commit entirely to Android Studio, but with it being at v0.1, I’m not quite ready to make that jump. On OS X, if you navigate to /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk, you’ll see the Android SDK installed by Android Studio. The reason for that is that Android Studio installs it’s own version of the SDK in it’s own app folder. This made me realize that at no point in the install process was I asked where my install of the Android SDK was at. One of the first things I noticed once I installed it was that when I went to create a project, not all of the SDK versions that I already had installed were showing up as SDK choices. As soon as they made Android Studio available to download, I went and grabbed it and installed it. Plus, an IDE made by the people that are making the Android OS / SDK is pretty exciting. This is super exciting to many Android developers because many people are using Eclipse and Eclipse is generally pretty terrible. Android Studio is a new IDE based off of NetBean’s IntelliJ IDE for Android development. If you’ve been watching the news out of Google I/O today, you’ll have heard about Android Studio.

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