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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!
@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

@twinkleson
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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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