


In the left pane, select Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Updates.In Android Studio, select File > Settings(or Android Studio > Preference on Mac).If you want to change the update channel for a given install, follow these steps: To make the preview version available in your list of applications, select Tools > Create Desktop Entryfrom the Android Studio menu bar.īy default, each Android Studio installation receives updates corresponding to the channel you originally downloaded (Canary, Beta, or Stable).Open a terminal, navigate into android-studio-preview/bin/and execute sh.Move it to wherever you have your stable version, such as within /usr/local/for your user profile, or /opt/ for shared users.Rename the resulting folder to something unique like “android-studio-preview.”. You do not have any Android Studio version in your machine then you can avoid this step.Drag the app file into your Applications.

Otherwise, you might override your existing version of Android Studio. You do not have any Android Studio version in your machine then you can avoid this step. Note: If you download version 2.3 or lower, the application name does not include the version number, so you must first rename it before moving the the new version into your apps directory.

