Reconsidering allowing developers to download just the Android SDK tools

[sethladd]

So I'm installing Flutter for Windows, watching the 1.8GB download chug along. And I'm wondering "why do I need the entire Android Studio? I just need the SDK". So I go to https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html and at the bottom are the links for just the CLI tools. At just 132MB. And I really want to download only those.

I remember at one point it was hard to download just the SDK. But, now that these links are on the page that we direct users to anyway (and, other than being below the fold, don't seem to be hidden), I wonder if we can revisit our policy, and support our users that only need to download the SDK?

[abarth]

Sure, we can revisit it. We might need SDK+gradle.

[sethladd]

Great! Thanks :) Also, my hard drive thanks you.

cc @mit-mit can you queue this up to take a look?

[Hixie]

We used to only need the SDK, but we moved to also needing Gradle, which is why we tell people to get the whole studio thing.

Ideally we'd automatically download the relevant parts (SDK, gradle, whatever) and not have to show the user anything at all (except maybe the EULA prompt if relevant).

[sethladd]

I'm hopefull there's a way to download gradle without the Studio.

[mit-mit]

There is: Gradle wrapper. I'm all for this, but think we should go one step further and vend our own Android SDK into /bin/cache.

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[Hixie]

Yes, that would be ideal. SDK and Gradle and everything we need. :-)

[trekkerghost]

@sethladd I had the same question. I really didn't want to have two IDE's
So I went and installed the android command line tools, used sdkmanager to install platforms;android-25, build-tools;25.0.3, installed gradle-3-5 from its website and ran flutter doctor to to finish installing the Flutter SDK and related tools.
Created a sample project using the IntelliJ idea and ran it. It just worked.

[zoechi]

Related to #9401

[iapicca]

Hi @sethladd is this issue still meant to be open?

[christopherfujino]

Closing this as we no longer require Android Studio.

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