Is it safe to delete .android folder in my home folder?

Question

I am trying to free up some space on my hard drive. I've noticed that i have .android folder in my home folder on my mac. Does anyone know is it safe to delete this folder? And what exactly is it? It's 10Gb in size. I did use Android Studio on a school project but I don't use it anymore and I've uninstalled Android Studio since then. I don't have any android devices eighter.

Answer 1

You can safely delete this folder at any time (except maybe while Android Studio is still running!)

All that will happen is that next time you use Android Studio:

• it will need to re-download some stuff.
• you might have to uninstall dev builds of apps on your phone and reinstall them again due to a change in keys.
• you will lose any data and save states of emulators you were using.