Is there a way to rollback an Android Studio update?

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raboyle picture raboyle · Oct 8, 2015 · Viewed 22.3k times · Source

As a student learning Android programming, the newest update to Android Studio 1.4 has been a total cluster****. There have been a number of new files added to the project you get from using all the defaults. Deleting any of these files, or deleting any of the values in some of these files, results in a slew of errors in the Android Manifest file. I would really like to avoid dealing with all this, so here's my question:

Is there a way to rollback an update in Android Studio 1.4? I'm guessing the answer is no. A search of the web showed a few promising hits, but these were all for releases in the 0.* range. And developer.android.com is silent on the issue.

If the answer is no, am I screwed if I don't have an installer from before this update? Or should I just ignore the files for now and not delete any lines of code in these files I am not using. Just starting out in this, I understood quite clearly the files that USED to be generated by the default project settings. All these new files they just tossed in? I'm clueless (for now).

Answer

Buddy picture Buddy · Oct 8, 2015

You can find some older versions of Android Studio here: https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

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