- Android SDK instance error Android SDK Tools version 25.2.5 is not supported. Update your Android SDK Tools to version 26.0.0 or newer. You can update it by running the Visual Studio installer.
- This wikiHow teaches you how to manually update an Android phone or tablet operating system. While your Android will typically update automatically, you can speed up the update process by manually updating as soon as you know an update is available.
I installed Android Studio via homebrew 'brew cask install android-studio' as a part of my automated Mac OS setup. Recently, Android Studio prompted me that an update is available. When I accepted to update, it failed with an error 'Studio does not have write access to /private/var/folders/wt/rjv6_wcn4f97_2nth7fqftqh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/19A80F28-865B-41FC-AA87-B8E43C826FCB/d/Android Studio.app/Contents. Please run it by a privileged user to update.' This error was confusing; I was running Android Studio as myself, a nonprivileged user and the same user owned this directory. Googling it a bit for AppTranslocation took me here.
See also: Guide How to Install ADB official on Windows, macOS, and Linux These can be downloaded for Windows and Mac (Android devices, ADB and Fastboot), generally from the official websites of device manufactures, but in case you are facing trouble, we have archived a list of all the main manufacturers and links to their USB drivers/ PC Suite (which include driver). Download Android Studio: Go to Android Studio. If the browser has detected your operating system, click Download Android Studio. Otherwise, click Download Options and select a different platform: Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Unzip and install the bundle. It includes essential components and the Studio IDE. Launch Android Studio. Open the Preferences window by clicking File Settings (on Mac, Android Studio Preferences). In the left panel, click Appearance & Behavior System Settings Updates. Be sure that Automatically check for updates is checked, then select a channel from the drop-down list (see figure 1). Click Apply or OK.
From this point onward, the issue and the fix were relatively straightforward. Apple marked Android Studio as quarantine and hence was in a read-only directory. Quarantine status was confirmed by
The fix was relatively simple as well
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Update worked as expected after this.
Update Android Studio Manually
Setting HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS=–no-quarantine seems to enable this behavior for all the future installs.
