Android Studio doesn't find Java Development Kit (JDK)

Question

I have installed Java 8 on my computer but Android Studio doesn't find it. When I execute the installer of Android Studio I only can see an screen in which I can see an introduction and when I press "Next" another screen it's displayed in which says:

We could not detect a Java Development Kit (JDK) v7 or newer on your system. Please browse to its path if known.

So I searched my JDK and when I press the button "Next" I get the following message:

Sorry, we still could not detect a valid JDK, which we need to proceed.

If setting your JDK path manually, make sure you have browsed to a parent directory that contains a "bin\java.exe" whose version reports 1.7 or higher when you run "java.exe -version".

After that, I go to the console and execute the command "java.exe -version". It gives to me:

java version "1.8.0_60"

So I don't know why it doesn't find my JDK. I also tried adding some Environment Variables:

JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60\
JDK_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60\

But it still doesn't find it. How can I fix it?

Note: I'm using Windows 10 as OS.

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

I think your JAVA_HOME variable is set to the wrong thing. Mine is:

JAVA_HOME C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60

I also have a PATH variable set as follows:

PATH      %JAVA_HOME%\BIN

I do not have a JDK_HOME variable.

Try that and see if it works.

(I recently installed Android Studio and had the same problem, even though I had Java 7 installed. So I downloaded Java 8 and manually updated the JAVA_HOME variable.)

Solution 2

I had the same problem when trying to install Android Studio bundle v2.1 (143.2915827-windows) on a Windows 10 machine with a JDK at a non-standard location (the JDK on a path containing spaces). After manually selecting the path, the installer would complain that it could still not find a JDK. I solved it by manually enclosing the selected path with double quotes by typing in the editable textbox.

Comments

[Francisco Romero]

Thanks for the point! I will see it now and answer to you if it works.

[Francisco Romero]

Thank you very much! Before I didn't have the folder jdk, only the jre so I unistall Java and reinstall it again and now I put the new folder jdk on my JDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables.