Android Studio Stuck on Loading Start Screen Screen

Question

This is more of a helpful tip/warning than a question. For someone else that might attempt what I did. Android Studio Dolphin (Not sure about other versions) on Mac and also Windows is stuck on Startup Screen after I installed 5 plugins for CSV support at the same time (Rainbow CSV, Cap-Hadoop, ExcelEditor, ExcelReader, and CSV).

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If anyone has a solution that will be awesome.

Answer 1

I just encountered the same issue today, I was able to fix it by deleting those plugins from the app's data roaming folder, you can access them by typing %APPDATA% in the "Run" app (Windows Key + R) or directly in the folder explorer.

Once there, Google -> AndroidStudio2021.3 (or whatever version you are using) -> Plugins.

EDIT: Mac equivalent is User/Library/Application Support/Google/"version of Android Studio"/plugins Library might be hidden in User folder so Shift+Command+. to show it (thanks to TwistenTiger)

Hope it helps!