You will have a dialog something like this, Select Apply. to clarify: this bug hangs the entire android studio installation process, so i dont think there is currently a working, supported way for an M1 user to.

seen any mention anywhere yet of Bluestacks successfully running on an M1 Mac.

Once you double-click, you will see a screen like the below image. BlueStacks is an android emulator that can be installed on any computer.

Untick All the Packages, and keep them in your mind because you will retick them in the next step Install Android Studio: Once downloaded Android Studio, then double click the Android Studio dmg file to start the installation.

So here are the simple steps to the solution: Just tried to run Android Studio (4.1.1) on Macbook Pro M1, it works, but: No emulators at this point Can build and publish on Android Phone (Nexus 4a in my case) IntelliJ has some lags in performance on M1 (because it is not native, and Intel built), but feels pretty usable. Expand Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Android SDK menu item on the left side of the popup window. Open android studio, click File > Settings menu item in the top menu bar. Before you can configure it, you should first get the android SDK install directory following the steps below. after some digging around, the root of the problem was that I have transferred all my data from my old Mac (using Time Machine) which uses Intel (The other Mac is Macbook Pro 2011 13 Inch Intel), so other than a lot of apps which did not run or ran sluggishly and I had to reinstall their ARM version, the Android SDK Tools were transfered too. 1.1 Get Android SDK Install Directory Path.

I've had this problem with my new Macbook Pro M1 Pro (Macbook Pro 2021 14 Inch M1 Pro).

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