There are a number of cases where the tools misbehave if the tools, or the project directory, or the SDK directory, is installed in a path with certain characters -- such as "!", "&", various unicode characters, and yes, spaces.
So in the latest build we've added more validation to prevent cases where really confusing things happen later on -- you've created your project but you get strange messages when trying to run etc. Spaces are a bit of a special case. Nearly all parts of the tool can handle spaces anywhere in the path -- except parts of the NDK toolchain. So in the next beta update (beta 4) we've dialed back that check; it still warns you but it's only a warning and says that it's only relevant if doing NDK development. (Note that even in beta 3 it shouldn't be a hard error; the OK button should let you ignore it, but the error message made it sound absolute.) On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:28 PM Joe White <[email protected]> wrote: > (ref: > https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=android%20sdk%20whitespace&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=185901 > ) > > You made a debilitating change (without notice) requiring that Android/sdk > location have no whitespace in the directory path! > > All previous versions of Android Studio (including 1.4 Beta 2) downloaded > to the "users" directory in Windows (often of the form c:\Users\Firstname > Lastname\AppData\Android\sdk ). > > Right now I am copying 26.6 GB from one location to another .. about 22 > hours to go . > > How can you release an update without ensuring that it is compatible with > past Android Studio installations?! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
