Android Studio won't update says already on newest version

Question

When I try to 'Check for updates' in Android studio I get the following message:

"You already have the latest version of Android Studio (Preview) installed."

I am on 0.5.2 and the newest version listed here http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary/latest is 0.5.4. I have canary builds selected when checking for updates. Any ideas?

Answer 1

As Scott Barta has pointed out in a comment, this is because you have ignored the update, so it won't ask you if you want to update to it anymore.

The solution is simply to quit Android Studio, then edit its other.xml file, and replace the myIgnoredBuildNumbers block with the following one:

<option name="myIgnoredBuildNumbers">
  <value>
    <list size="0" />
  </value>
</option>

other.xml is located under your Android Studio config directory:

• For Unix: ~/.AndroidStudioPreview/config/options/other.xml
• For Windows: %HOMEPATH%\.AndroidStudioPreview\config\options\other.xml (basically the same as the Unix path)
• For OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudioPreview/options/other.xml

See this question and its answer for more information.