Android studio cannot open monitor (DDMS)

Question

I can't open the monitor (ddms) in android studio getting following error:

A java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Monitor. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations: C:\Android-Studio\android-studio\sdk\tools\lib\monitor-x86\jre\bin\javaw.exe javaw.exe in your current PATH

Would appreciate any suggestion how to fix this. thanks

Solution

You must have your jdk or jre installed and in your path. Considering you are running windows you must go to your environment variables and add the location of one of them to the path. That is assuming you already have one of them installed. If you dont you need to go the oracle website and get one of them.

If you already have it installed go to your systems settings, then go to the advanced settings tab and click Environment variables at the bottom, there you edit the PATH and add the location of your jre or jdk, that should solver your problem.