Android Studio Beta 0.8.0 won't start on OS X

Question

I just downloaded the newly released beta version of Android Studio. When trying to launch the application, nothing happens.

The following message is shown in the OS X Console:

"com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.google.android.studio.58288[542]) Exited with code: 1"

I am running OS X Mavericks with Java 1.7.0_51 installed.

Any help to resolve this issue is much appreciated :)

Answer 1

I solved the problem by following the advice given here.

In /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/info.plist, expand JVMOptions and edit the value of JVMVersion to match whatever version of Java you are using. For some reason, mine was set to 1.6* even though I never had that version of Java installed. So, for Java version 1.8 one would edit the value to be 1.8*.