Android Studio Portable Online
At first glance, the answer seems to be a hard "no." Google’s official IDE is a beast—a sprawling 3GB+ behemoth that touches your registry, scatters configuration files across your user folder, and relies on hidden SDK paths. It is, by design, a resident application.
Extract this folder to your portable drive (e.g., D:\AndroidStudio ). android studio portable
Instead of the standard .exe installer, you need the archive version: Go to the Android Studio Download Options page. At first glance, the answer seems to be a hard "no
@echo off REM Set drive letter to current directory's drive set DRIVE=%~d0 REM Set environment variables set ANDROID_HOME=%DRIVE%\PortableDev\AndroidSDK set ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=%DRIVE%\PortableDev\AndroidSDK set GRADLE_USER_HOME=%DRIVE%\PortableDev\.gradle REM Launch Studio with custom configs start "" "%DRIVE%\PortableDev\AndroidStudio\bin\studio64.exe" Instead of the standard
By creating a simple text file named idea.properties inside the Android Studio bin folder, you can override the default paths. The magic happens with relative paths: