Android studio offline installation

Question

My windows XP development environment has no internet access. So I need to install Android Studio without internet connection. (Formerly I used 1-2 months IntelliJ IDEA 12 for android development)

The steps I made:

• I downloaded studio 0.2.x installation files from developer site (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html).
• I downloaded JDK and installed.
• I already installed Android SDK package installer, downloaded API files and installed that files by using this package installer. (http://siddharthbarman.com/apd/)

I tried to create new project. I get "gradle" error. It seems like gradle is bundled inside studio but because of error exists, I downloaded gradle-1.6.zip from their website. (http://www.gradle.org/downloads) I added gradle\bin to my PATH environment variable.

Then I still get new errors that maven is missing. It seems like I need to download maven but I even don't know the version.

Can you write step by step that how many more programs / libraries should I download to get Hello world from Android studio and Android emulator ?

Note: I download files from a machine that has internet connection, copy them to flash disk and move to my development machine.

Answer 1

Android Studio 0.4.0 now includes support for offline:

http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio040released

"You can now open the Compiler > Gradle options and enable Offline mode, which will tell Gradle to ignore update-to-date checks"

Answer 2

It doesn't work offline for creating new projects, so this is what I do and it works 100% offline!

1. Download Gradle and setup Environment variables
2. Create/Load project in Eclipse
3. File > Export
4. Select 'Generate Gradle build files'
5. Select project
6. Open AndroidStudio or IntelliJ13
7. Import project
8. Select 'Create project from existing sources'
9. Done!

But I preferred to use 'android create project' command, then setup 'build.gradle' file manually.

Answer 3

There is no need to download Maven. Android Studio only uses Gradle. However, the first time you build your project, you'd need to have a internet connection so that the Android Gradle plugin and all its dependencies are downloaded and cached on your local disk. With an active internet connection, do:

$ cd /path/to/project
$ /path/to/gradle assembleDebug

Once that works, then you shouldn't need an internet connection.

Android Studio will eventually support such an offline mode.