Android studio first run stuck at “Downloading Components” window

To disable “Downloading Components” at startup,

  • Go to the installation directory of Android Studio.
  • There you will find a folder named “bin”.
  • Inside this folder there is a file named “idea.properties”.
  • Open this file and add the following line to the end of the file:

    disable.android.first.run=true

What this will do is disable the check that Android Studio performs on first run and decides to download all that stuff.

If it asks to save the file at some different place instead of overwriting the original one, please check the access permissions to the file.

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