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How to completely remove Android Studio from Mac OS X
How to Completely Remove Android Studio
Execute these commands from the terminal
rm -Rf /Applications/Android\ Studio.app
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio*
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.android.studio.plist
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio*
if you would like to delete all projects:
rm -Rf ~/AndroidStudioProjects
to remove gradle related files (caches & wrapper)
rm -Rf ~/.gradle
use the below command to delete all Android Virtual Devices(AVDs) and *.keystore. note: this folder is used by others Android IDE as well, so if you still using other IDE you may not want to delete this folder)
rm -Rf ~/.android
to delete Android SDK tools
rm -Rf ~/Library/Android*
edit: added remove all Android Studio's logs. thanks Eron Villarreal!
edit: added remove ~.android folder. thanks randallmeadows!
@Hanslen
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Hanslen commented Aug 31, 2017

Thanks a lot! It worked on me!

@Natelegreat1
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+1

@fasilminale
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thanks, also it worked for me

@gulliet
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gulliet commented Nov 6, 2017

Great! That worked perfectly; I have now a clean and working install of AS3. (The upgrade from AS2 went pretty wrong.) Many thanks!

@smhk
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smhk commented Dec 22, 2017

Thanks for these great tips !!

An update for 2018 would be great ...

@rodrigo98rm
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Worked for me! Thanks a lot!

@victoriahawkins
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thanks!

@camden-kid
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@hanksudo
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👍

@richardleandro1
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Thank you

@litoarias
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Work for me!! Great

@Brandons42
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Thank you!

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ghost commented Jun 20, 2018

Thanks!!!!!!! 👍

@ValiantCuriosity
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Most Helpful. :-D

@endersaka
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HAXM can be fully removed even if you have already deleted "~/Library/Android*". This is the official guide: https://github.com/intel/haxm/wiki/Installation-Instructions-on-macOS#Removing_Intel_HAXM
The command is:
sudo /Library/Extensions/intelhaxm.kext/Contents/Resources/uninstall.sh

@Akramz
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Akramz commented Jul 26, 2018

Thank you!

@rathorevaibhav
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Helped me to free 20GB of disk space! Thanks.

@evgeniyd
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Hi. Thank you for this list.

How about?

~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.google.android.studio.savedState

@lucifer662607004
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Hi. Thank you for this list.

How about?

~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.google.android.studio.savedState

no "Saved Application" folder in Library here....

@evandrix
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where to configure Android Studio Cache folder path?

@scottjmaddox
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Super helpful, thanks! Android Studio is a massive disk hog.

@zehengdong
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Many thx! The folder ~/Library/Android is really large

@itsmonterey
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Thanks a lot! It saved me 20GB free space!!

@takatso-wits
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Thank you very much... I managed to free up at least 30 GB :)

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