1# Guide for setting up a separate profile for Android Studio
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3It can be helpful to have a separate profile of Android Studio when
4working on AndroidX as we use prebuilts of an SDK instead of public SDK.
5Launching Studio with a custom idea.properties files allows to
6have a separate profile of Android Studio for work with AndroidX.
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8To use this launch Studio with setting STUDIO_PROPERTIES env variable to point
9to idea.properties in this checkout that sets custom `idea.config.path` and
10`idea.system.path`. `sample-androidx-canary.desktop` is an example Linux desktop
11shortcut entry.
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13[More details on this on Jetbrains website](https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207240985-Changing-IDE-default-directories-used-for-config-plugins-and-caches-storage?page=2)
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