Manually Install System Images On Android Studio 3.5.3

Android Studio has a shoddy download manager. It often fails to download components such as system images, and then starts over from the beginning. For some people it just isn't possible to rely on the download manager, because it will never finish downloading and installing the component. To get around this you can install the system images for the emulator manually by downloading the ZIP archive with your prefered download manager, and extracting the ZIP to the appropriate subdirectory of the SDK folder. For example, "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-29\google_apis_playstore" (replace "user1" with your username) is for system images for Android Q with Google APIs. The directory you need to extract to won't exist until at least one system image has been attempted to be downloaded there so you may have to create it manually. Alternatively, start the download with Android Studio, and then cancel it. The empty folder will remain. After the ZIP is extracted, re-open Android Studio, launch the AVD manager, and setup a virtual device. AVD manager will refresh it's list of detected system images to include the ones you've installed.

System Images:
(replace "user1" with your username)
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-29_r09.zip = C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-29\google_apis_playstore
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/x86_64-29_r08-windows.zip = C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-29\google_apis_playstore
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/x86_64-29_r07-windows.zip = C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-29\default
- https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/x86-25_r01.zip = C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-25\default

Notes:
- Tested on Windows 10 Pro x64.

Authors:James Daniel Marrs Ritchey
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