Android studio is a free IDE for creating android apps. It is based off the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
Issues
Start Failed
When trying to run Android Studio, an error message appears after the splash screen saying
Internal error. Please report to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:178) at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl$1$1$1.run(MainImpl.java:52) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:75) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726) at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:362) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.AndroidVirtualDevice.<init>(AndroidVirtualDevice.java:81) at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.InstallComponentsPath.createComponentTree(InstallComponentsPath.java:89) at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.InstallComponentsPath.init(InstallComponentsPath.java:215) at com.android.tools.idea.wizard.DynamicWizardPath.attachToWizard(DynamicWizardPath.java:97) at com.android.tools.idea.wizard.DynamicWizard.addPath(DynamicWizard.java:233) at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.FirstRunWizard.init(FirstRunWizard.java:75) at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.FirstRunWizardHost.setupWizard(FirstRunWizardHost.java:100) at com.android.tools.idea.welcome.FirstRunWizardHost.getWelcomePanel(FirstRunWizardHost.java:92) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.welcomeScreen.WelcomeFrame.<init>(WelcomeFrame.java:68) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.welcomeScreen.WelcomeFrame.showNow(WelcomeFrame.java:173) at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication$IdeStarter.main(IdeaApplication.java:302) at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:172)
Solution[1]
Open the directory Android Studio is installed: ?:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin (You can right click on the Android Studio shortcut and click Open file location) Open the file idea.properties Scroll to the end of the file and add the line disable.android.first.run=true Save the file and start Android Studio