There is some extra stuff you can clean too: You can gain easily 10GB with these steps. On the SDK Tools tab, click on “Show Packages Details” and uncheck the old build-tools or NDK versions.I recommend to keep “Sources for Android xx” items as it will allow you to check the source code of the SDK from a previous version of Android & help you debugging.Remove the emulators you don’t use as they’re quite heavy ( some GB).I guess you’ll not miss the Android 3.0 SDK files. On Android Studio, check the SDK Manager and remove the following items: wrapper: different distributions of Gradle downloaded on you machine.daemon: essentially logs files of Gradle daemons.

So, the more projects you have with different Gradle versions, the more sub-directories you will have. Inside those directories, you’ll have sub-directories for each version of Gradle you’ve been using. This is a really huge one, mine was ~ 15GB. This is the Gradle home directory, containing caches, daemons and wrappers files.

If none of the above suggestions fix your problem, try these: It contains some project configuration files.īig project directories can weight around 500MB to 1GB. gradle directory from the root of your project.

Clear the cache of Android Studio using “ File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart” choose “ Invalidate and restart option” and close Android Studio.

Obviously, try to clean your project from android studio : “ Build -> Clean Project”.

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