How to make Android Studio STOP generating local.properties?

Question

I have set an environment variable ANDROID_HOME, which points to my android SDK location. However, every time I open my project in Android Studio it places local.properties file to the root of my project and copies my SDK location from ANDROID_HOME to this file. I want Android Studio use ANDROID_HOME directly, without generating local.properties.

Why? I'm on Windows 10 and I use Bash for Windows. I want to run command line using Bash while running Android Studio from Windows. For this I need two ANDROID_HOME environment variables, one for Windows, one for Bash. This is because although they point to the same (windows) android SDK the format is different, for Windows it is C:\Users\me\Android SDK while for Bash it's /mnt/c/Users/me/Android SDK. When Android Studio creates local.properties with windows path Bash becomes broken since apparently local.properties takes advantage over ANDROID_HOME, so I have to delete it manually.

Answer 1

You might find this article useful:

Posix path conversion (mingw.org)

The gradle android plugin "Application" extension (your regular gradle-android interface) has a property sdkDirectory. Perhaps this can override it? I can't check.

I think there is a configuration switch for bash on Windows to parse path separators Windows-like, can't seem to find it, it is buried deep inside MinGW or MSYS docs I think.

Last resort - git Hooks. Read the ProGit book chapter on Hooks.

Answer 2

The Android will generate this file always when gradle sync it. But if you delete it and define ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_NDK_HOME environment variables, every time that generates it will read ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_NDK_HOME.

If you want to build your project in many computers with different home folders, just keep the local.properties outside the source version control.