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Hello my people, am new to Android development and it seems whooping off gigs out of my data bundle... Is there any possible way I can run android studio offline?.

Thanks

Is it when building apps or setting it up.?

Yes, there is. Go to the developer.android.com and you'll find the offline components and instructions on how to set them up. There are two files you'll need to download. One is the gradle plugin nonsense or whatever, and the other one is the maven dependencies for extra android libraries. Everything sha should not be more than 3 Gigabytes (excluding Android Studio itself, as I'm assuming you already have that installed), so get that and you don't need an internet connection to use Android Studio again.

Download the required Gradle version to a folder. So for every project, you can use the offline gradle by using the option in Settings-Gradle.

What you need next is syncing your project whenever you add new libraries in your build.gradle file. This does not "eat" much data.

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Hello my people, am new to Android development and it seems whooping off gigs out of my data bundle... Is there any possible way I can run android studio offline?.

Thanks

You can, but that's after you've used about 5GB to download all necessary components.

If your internet connection is poor too, you can end up using more as some downloads will be interrupted and re-downloaded from the beginning.

check settings, there's an option to cache and sync offline, but sadly it doesn't work all the time.

All the options given don't work like that. And more so, the only time android studio zap data is when you are downloading major SDK or components and when you are downloading emulator(s) which is necessary for your development environment. So, as a beginner, you will have to use up to 6gbytes to set up android studio if you want to enjoy your working experience in IDE.

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