Android Studio hangs on "Tip of the Day"

Question

When I start up Android studio, it opens "Tip of the Day", which I cannot close although I can click the X (not the close button though). It says 'Gradle sync started' at the bottom, which never goes away. I attached a screenshot.

Answer 1

I am on MacOs Big Sur and resolved the issue by going to System preferences >> General >> Prefer tabs "never" when opening documents.

Answer 2

I just ran into Android Studio hanging as it started. On the Mac, I was able to resolve the issue by deleting the options file specifying the JDK Studio should use. In my case that file was removed as follows:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudioPreview3.3/studio.jdk

It seems that Android Studio hangs if the specified SDK is too new. Removing the file lets it fall back to its own included JDK.