Running old Android Studio without Java 6
From http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/configuration : You can also place use environment variables to point to specific override files elsewhere: STUDIO_VM_OPTIONS , which vmoptions file to use STUDIO_PROPERTIES , which property file to use STUDIO_JDK , which JDK to run studio with Note that this last variable allows you to for example run Android Studio with Java 7 on OSX (which normally picks Java 6 from the version specified in Info.plist ): $ export STUDIO_JDK=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk $ open /Applications/Android\ Studio.app