Hi Dalliin,
Android Studio plugins are already outside the installation folder. When
you install a plugin through the IDE it goes to your own, user-specific,
directory. If you manually install a plugin (not recommended) you should
place it in the directories listed bellow. However, it's better to install
it from the IDE.
Do not change the properties file, as that directory is basically already
pointing to a place outside the android studio installation folder. I don't
know which platform you are running studio on, but these are the locations
for the plugin folder you should be looking at:
Linux: ~/.AndroidStudio/config/plugins
Windows: ~/.AndroidStudio/config/plugins
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/AndroidStudio
On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 10:04:10 AM UTC-8, Dallin Wilcox wrote:
>
> Placing the plugins in external folders worked as expected, but it didn't
> go so well when we attempted to update to 1.0 RC2, in fact it broke the
> patch process completely. The patch process detected that idea.properties
> had been modified and offered no solution (not even to replace the modified
> idea.properties file). At that point the only option available was to
> cancel the patch. I'll keep digging to see about other ways to configure
> external plugins that may be compatible with the patch process, but if
> anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.
>
> On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:54:50 PM UTC-6, Dallin Wilcox wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Xavier,
>>
>> After some poking around I found that idea.properties (located in the bin
>> folder) lets me specify an external plugins folder. I'll give that a shot
>> and see how it goes with the next patch. Hopefully idea.properties doesn't
>> get replaced as well as part of the patch process.
>>
>> Relevant portion of idea.properties:
>> #---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to user installed
>> plugins folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
>> #---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # idea.plugins.path=${idea.config.path}/plugins
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 21, 2014 11:20:09 AM UTC-6, Xavier Ducrohet wrote:
>>>
>>> Signing of Studio requires the Studio installation to not change.
>>> IntelliJ should be able to install additional plugin outside of the studio
>>> folder to avoid this.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Dallin Wilcox <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I find it rather annoying that every time we patch Studio we are
>>>> presented with a dialog that basically forces deletion of all
>>>> user-installed plugins forcing us to re-install them after update. I
>>>> would
>>>> think at least an option for plugins to let them be would be a great
>>>> feature.
>>>>
>>>> Sy my question is... Why delete all plugins that don't come by default?
>>>> (I know there was an update a while back to remove orphaned empty
>>>> directories, perhaps it is related?) Is there some sort of white list or
>>>> config we can add plugins to to avoid this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the great work and I'm excited for Studio to come out of
>>>> beta!
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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