capacitor: bug: CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH does not work with JetBrains toolbox managed shell scripts.

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/core: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/android: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/ios: 3.3.2

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/android: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/core: 3.3.2
  @capacitor/ios: 3.3.2

Platform(s)

MacOs

Current Behavior

JetBrains ToolBox has integrated shell scripts that point to the latest Android studio version installed. (see here). This is done because each release incorporates the build ID on the path, so a hard coded path will always break after a version update.

Setting the path of the generated studio.sh script into CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH fails with:

[error] Unable to launch Android Studio. Is it installed?
        Attempted to open Android Studio at: /usr/local/bin/studio.sh
        You can configure this with the CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH environment variable.

Expected Behavior

We could be able to give this script to open capacitor projects.

Code Reproduction

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Other Technical Details

The generated script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
#Generated by JetBrains Toolbox 1.22.10740 at 2021-11-18T10:21:56.087264

declare -a ideargs=()
declare -- wait=""

for o in "$@"; do
  if [[ "$o" = "--wait" || "$o" = "-w" ]]; then
    wait="-W"
    o="--wait"
  fi
  if [[ "$o" =~ " " ]]; then
    ideargs+=("\"$o\"")
  else
    ideargs+=("$o")
  fi
done

open -na "/Users/my-user/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/AndroidStudio/ch-0/203.7784292/Android Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/studio" $wait --args "${ideargs[@]}"%

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 12
Comments: 15 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

You can put this in your .zshrc or .bashrc as a workaround:

androidStudioToolboxBase="${HOME}/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/AndroidStudio/ch-0"
androidStudioToolboxVersion=$(ls ${androidStudioToolboxBase})
export CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH=${androidStudioToolboxBase}/${androidStudioToolboxVersion}/Android\ Studio.app/

It would be better if that location is checked as well by default on Apple hardware.

+17

saschpe on Jan 6, 2022

You can put this in your .zshrc or .bashrc as a workaround:
androidStudioToolboxBase="${HOME}/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/AndroidStudio/ch-0"
androidStudioToolboxVersion=$(ls ${androidStudioToolboxBase})
export CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH=${androidStudioToolboxBase}/${androidStudioToolboxVersion}/Android\ Studio.app/
It would be better if that location is checked as well by default on Apple hardware.

I use MacOS and I had to remove quotes from the first line for it to work. Thanks for sharing!

butaminas on Jan 23, 2022

I’m using this in .zshrc

export CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH="$HOME/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/studio"

Working on Mac M2! Hope it helps! 🙏🏼

VitorHFLopes on Oct 16, 2023

Jetbrains Toolbox now seems to helpfully place files here on macOS:

$HOME/Applications/JetBrains\ Toolbox/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/jetbrains-toolbox-launcher

So there’s no need to mess with identifying the version and such anymore.

If it’s as simple as running this script, I definitely think that capacitor should automatically check this path as well.

ptmkenny on Mar 31, 2023

Different form of “not work” - I get Finder windows?

I’ve got my JetBrains products installed via Toolbox. If I manually open Studio and then open the project’s android directory my project runs. But of course if I just use npx cap open android then I get Attempted to open Android Studio at: /Applications/Android Studio.app and nothing happens.

I can’t easily set the androidStudioToolboxVersion as suggested by @butaminas because Toolbox has installed multiple versions in the androidStudioToolboxBase directory.

So, I set up Toolbox to generate scripts and set the env var in my .zshrc: to point at the Toolbox’s script:

export CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH="/Users/waynestidolph/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts/studio"

Now, from a terminal command line I can simply execute $CAPACITOR_ANDROID_STUDIO_PATH and Studio launches nicely. But, when using npx cap open android from my project’s root rather than getting Studio, I get one or two Finder windows launched - the Finder windows are on my project’s android directory and on my project’s root directory.

I’m a Mac-newbie (M1 Mac Mini, macOS Monterey 12.4), so maybe I’m missing something obvious …

If I manually open Studio and then open the project’s android directory my project runs.

wstidolph on Jul 13, 2022

Same problem here with Mac M1. I have to open Android studio manually.

tomavic on Dec 13, 2021