This is my launchctl command for the command line.

This was a little tricky because Android Studio is not a command line application so I had to use a AppleScript command to set the environment variable when login. STUDIO_PROPERTIES, which property file to use

STUDIO_VM_OPTIONS, which vmoptions file to use You can also place use environment variables to point to specific override files elsewhere: IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.0 Web Help/File IDEA.Propertiesįortunately I was able to resolve it on Yosemite using environment variables as said in the 1.0 RC3 Release Notes. However there is no explanation about what options are.Īdjusting VM Options for Android Studio on Mac With the latest changes these properties are now additive instead such that you can set just the attributes you care about, and the rest will use the defaults from the IDE installation). (This has been possible on some platforms before, but it required you to copy and change the entire contents of the files. vmoptions files in the following directories. Instead, you can customize the attributes by creating your own. You should not edit any files in the IDE installation directory. We still recommend running studio with Java 6 due to improved font rendering, but there is no work around needed if, for example, only java 8 is found.Īs of RC 3, we have a better mechanism for customizing properties for the launchers on all three platforms. In the next version of Android Studio, if no java 6 is found but 7 (or greater) is found then it will use that instead.

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