android studio - manually download system image for emulator

Question

Good day,I'm a student and I'm trying to create a virtual device in Android Studio, however my home internet is too slow to download a System Image, there is an internet cafe near me that has very fast internet and I plan to download the System Image there by accessing in my browser this link : https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-25_r08.zip

From this message in the window where Android Studio downloads the System Image for Android Nougat

To install: - Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image (system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86)  Preparing "Install Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image". Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-25_r08.zip 

However I do not know how to install it in android studio. How am I able to install it myself on android studio and make an emulator?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

In windows: First locate your android-sdk. By default it's in your C:\Users\Your.name\AppData\Local\ in it's root folder. where you can find: SDK Manager.exe, make a folder name it "system-images", my api 25 image is at system-images\android-25\google_apis\x86_64\Files

Hope you can Figure it out. Comment if you have any problem.

Answer 2

In mac OSX:

~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-[API_VERSION]/[API_TYPE]/x86

Replace [API_VERSION] with Android version you are downloading and the [API_TYPE] can either be google_apis_playstore or google_apis depending on whether the image you are downloading comes with Google Play or not.