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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Getting Started with Android Setting Up an Android Development Environment for Windows

Posted by HA Huynh
HA Huynh
329 Points

Having trouble installing JDK

I tried setting this solution found on the website: Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Properties. Then open Advanced tab > Environment Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21.

But I still get an error saying: The environment variable JAVA_HOME (with the value of C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21) does not point to a valid JVM installation.

I would really appreciate if anyone could help me with this because it took 4 hours for me to download and I really want it to work. Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

Could you verify a few things? Are Android Studio and Java either both 32 bit or both 64 bit? Did you set the environment variable as a System variable or a user variable? What version of Android Studio are you running? What OS are you running(also is it 32 or 64 bit)? I found a few stackoverflow posts with sitautions similar to this here and here. Please let us know if any of this helps, if not, we can try providing more assistance.

HA Huynh
HA Huynh
329 Points

Hi James, I actually somehow installed JDK before I checked back on this but I get the feeling I'm still going to run into problems because there were a bunch of errors I encountered while trying to install it. I can open Android Studio now but I'm still in the process of testing it out. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question though.