Using JDK that is bundled inside Android Studio as JAVA_HOME on Mac

Question

I tried to open Android Device Monitor and the Studio showed me this message =-O :

It surprised me, because how have I been able to develop Android apps if I didn't have any Java installed?! Actually, Android Studio comes with bundled JDK/JRE (located in /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home), but it is not found by the system: executed usr/libexec/java_home gives

Unable to find any JVMs matching version "(null)".
No Java runtime present, try --request to install.

Setting $JAVA_HOME to /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home did not help — source .bash_profile doesn't like that it's a directory.

QUESTION: I don't want to install new JDK if I already have one inside Android Studio. How do I set it as system default?

Answer 1

For some magical reason restarting the OS helped. And also adding the correct string export JAVA_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/ to .bash_profile (and reloading with source .bash_profile).

If you're using Catalina and above, you most probably use zsh as a shell instead of bash. In that case, add it to .zshrc or .zprofile instead of .bash_profile in your home directory

After that, running java -version gave this output and Java started to execute normally:

openjdk version "1.8.0_112-release"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-release-b06)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b06, mixed mode)

As for the Android Device Monitor — it still demands this ancient JRE version 6.