After Hours of searches I've finally found a solution for Mac OsX (I've got Yosemite, but I think it's the same for other versions of OSx).
It's all explained in this link: http://andowebsit.es/blog/noteslog.com/post/how-to-upgrade-subversion-on-osx/
Edit: here the solution in case the link expires
First, you have to be sure that the installed version of the SVN Client is 1.8 using svn --version. The result should be similar to this:
svn --version
svn, version 1.8.13 (r1667537)
compiled Jun 5 2015, 19:21:21 on x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
If your svn version is not 1.8, use brew to install the new version of subversion.
Then in order to get the correct path of the svn executable you have to use the which command:
which -a svn
/usr/bin/svn
/usr/local/bin/svn
Finally go to Android Studio Preferences -> Version Control -> Subversion and put the /usr/local/bin/svn string in the Use command line client option.