How do I download the Android SDK without downloading Android Studio

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As of the moment  I am running a Windows 8 1 PC that does not have the storage or the RAM for a IDE like Android Studio or Eclipse  I want to download the Android SDK tools  without the IDE  How can this be accomplished

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For those using the latest distribution on windows, the following should be enough:

Download the command line tools from here
Extract it somewhere (e.g. C:\androidsdk)
Add ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS as environment variable pointing to where you extracted it (C:\androidsdk)
Create a folder named latest inside the cmdlime-tools you extracted. And move what's inside(bin,lib...) to the folder latest.
cd cmdline-tools/latest/bin and execute the following:

sdkmanager.bat system-images;android-29;default;x86_64 platforms;android-29 build-tools;29.0.3 extras;google;m2repository extras;android;m2repository

Agree to the terms and conditions and continue. voilà

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What worked for me on Windows    Downloaded command line tools from https   developer android com studio index html Put the whole tools folder from the ZIP archive to C  Program Files  x86  Android SDK  Launched tools android bat as administrator  which opened the usual SDK Manager window Installed required components  The files were downloaded to     Android SDK  directory  that is build-tools  platforms  platform-tools  etc  directories appeared alongside tools inside     Android SDK   Opened the Android project in Intellij IDEA  navigated to File- Project Structure- SDKs  and added Android SDK by directing to     Android SDK  directory

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Navigate to the  Get just the command line tools  section of the android downloads page  and download the tools for your system   For Windows   Extract the contents to C  Android android-sdk   Navigate to     C  Android android-sdk tools bin and open a command line window      shift   right click    Run the following to download the latest android package   sdkmanager  platforms android-25     Update everything  sdkmanager --update   Other operation systems Do pretty much the same  but not using windows directories   The sdkmanager page gives more info in to what commands to use to install your sdk

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I downloaded Android Studio and installed it  The installer said -  Android Studio      500 MB    Android SDK      2 3 GB    Android Studio installer is actually an  Android SDK Installer  along with a sometimes useful tool called  Android Studio    Most importantly - Android Studio Installer will not just install the SDK  It will also -   Install the latest build-tools  Install the latest platform-tools  Install the latest AVD Manager which you cannot do without    Things which you will have to do manually if you install the SDK from its zip file   Just take it easy  Install the Android Studio                                  Edit                                 So  being inspired by the responses in the comments I would like to update my answer   The update is that only  and only  if 500MB of hard disk space does not matter much to you than you should go for Android Studio otherwise other answers would be better for you   Android Studio worked for me as I had a 1TB hard disk which is 2000 times 500MB   Also  note  that RAM sizse should not a restriction for you as you would not even be running Android Studio   I came to this solution as I was myself stuck in this problem  I tried other answers but for some reason  maybe my in-competencies  they did not work for me  I decided to go for Android Studio and realized that it was merely 18  of the total installation and SDK was 82  of it  While I used to think otherwise  I am not deleting the answers inspite of negative rating as the answer worked for me  I might work for someone elese with a 1 TB hard disk  which is pretty common these days

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To download the SDK over command line  the link has changed slightly than previously mentioned   wget --quiet --output-document  tmp sdk-tools-linux zip https   dl google com android repository commandlinetools-linux-  ANDROID SDK TOOLS  zip  Latest version listed on the downloads page

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Well the folks who are trying to download either on  ix or Ec2 machine would suggest to clean approach in below steps     mkdir android-sdk   cd android-sdk   mkdir cmdline-tools   cd cmdline-tools   wget https   dl google com android repository commandlinetools-linux-  zip   unzip commandlinetools-linux-  zip   The king - sdkmanager lives inside      cmdline-tools tools bin     you d better set in PATH environment variable   but cmdline-tools should not be set as ANDROID HOME  Because later  when updating Android SDK  or installing more packages  the other packages will be placed under ANDROID HOME  but not under cmdline-tools   The final  complete ANDROID HOME directory structure should look like below  consist of quite a few sub-directories    build-tools  cmdline-tools  emulator  licenses  patcher  platform-tools  platforms  tools   You can easily point out that build-tools and cmdline-tools are siblings  all resides inside the parent ANDROID HOME   Add SDK tools directory in PATH environment variable to make executable available globally  Add below line either in    bashrc or    profile file to make it permanent   In order to edit the    bashrc simply can be editable in vim mode     vim  bashrc   Now set your preferred ANDROID HOME in  bashrc file    export ANDROID HOME  home  lt user gt  android-sdk export PATH   PATH   ANDROID HOME cmdline-tools tools bin  ANDROID HOME platform-tools   here strange thing that we haven t download the platform-tools directory as of now but mentoning it under path but let it be as it will help you avoid remodification on the same file later   Now go inside the same directory     cd android-sdk   NOTE  well in first attempt sdkmanager command didnt found for me so I close the terminal and again created the connection or you can also refresh the same if it works for you   after that use the sdkmanager to list and install the packages needed     sdkmanager  platform-tools   platforms android-27   build-tools 27 0 3    Hence Sdkmanager path is already set it will be accessible from anywhere     sdkmanager --update     sdkmanager --list Installed packages                        100  Computing updates                   Path                   Version   Description                      Location                -------                -------   -------                          -------                 build-tools 27 0 3     27 0 3    Android SDK Build-Tools 27 0 3   build-tools 27 0 3      emulator               30 0 12   Android Emulator                 emulator                patcher v4             1         SDK Patch Applier v4             patcher v4              platform-tools         30 0 1    Android SDK Platform-Tools       platform-tools          platforms android-27   3         Android SDK Platform 27          platforms android-27

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This tutorial is a just step by step for installing Android SDK  Software Development Kit  assuming the user is starting from scratch   There are just a couple of prerequisites to note    Java runtime environment  or JDK  at Oracle website  and download the correct version  32- or 64-bit  for your computer   A good internet connection  needed for downloading system images etc    I recommed using the offline SDK installer for installing the essential tools namely SDK and AVD manager  The last version of he installer is found here  SDK Installer r24 4 1  for windows   SDK Installer r24 4 1  for linux  or SDK Installer r24 4 1  for macos   For this guide I was using windows   Here is the workthrough    Depending on your choice download the appropriate SDK package from above links  but for this example I will be using the manual method  After downloading the package  begin installation  and choose the desired installation folder to proceed or just leave the default  USERPROFILE  android-sdk        When done leave the option to download system images  checked       Now we re in business      The SDK manager window will appear  now you need to update download other sdk packages  i e platform-tools  system-images  platforms etc according to API levels      Note  I recommend downloading x86 images as they re much faster tham arm counterparts  also get intel HAXM  hardware accelerated execution manager  driver to significantly increase your emulator speed   All set  now you just need to create and configure an Android virtual device matching your target Android version and tweak desired settings  To do this click on the Tools tab in SDK manager and select manage AVDs  then in the following window click Create you ll see a similar screen as below       After that boot the newly created virtual device         Install applications and test as you wish

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You can find the command line tools at the downloads page under the  Command line tools only  section     These are the links provided in the page as of now  version 26 1 1     Windows no installer  https   dl google com android repository sdk-tools-windows-4333796 zip MacOSX  https   dl google com android repository sdk-tools-darwin-4333796 zip Linux  https   dl google com android repository sdk-tools-linux-4333796 zip   Be sure to have read and agreed with the terms of service before downloading any of the command line tools   The installer version for windows doesn t seem to be available any longer  this is the link for version 24 4 1    Windows installer  https   dl google com android installer r24 4 1-windows exe

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Sadly  straight from google  which is where you will want to download if your company firewall blocks other sources   Release 1 6 r1 September 2009 is the latest SDK they have

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Command line only without sdkmanager  for advanced users   CI   You can find the download links for all individual packages  including various revisions  in the repository XML file  https   dl google com android repository repository-12 xml  where 12 is the version of the repository index and will increase in the future   All  lt sdk url gt  values are relative to https   dl google com android repository  so  lt sdk url gt platform-27 r03 zip lt  sdk url gt   can be downloaded at https   dl google com android repository platform-27 r03 zip Similar summary XML files exist for system images as well    default  https   dl google com android repository sys-img android sys-img xml  google apis  https   dl google com android repository sys-img google apis sys-img xml

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Command-line approach mkdir android-sdk cd android-sdk wget https   dl google com android repository sdk-tools-linux-  zip unzip sdk-tools-linux-  zip tools bin sdkmanager --update  When executing the above commands  make sure that you replace   with an appropriate version number which you could find in the download page  Installing packages You can also use the sdkmanager to list and to install any specific packages needed  tools bin sdkmanager --list tools bin sdkmanager  quot platform-tools quot   quot platforms android   27 quot   quot build-tools 27 0 3 quot   FYI sdk-tools-linux-  zip only includes the command-line tools  This extracts content to a single directory named tools  like   - android-sdk      - tools  To get the SDK packages we could run  tools bin sdkmanager --update  The sdkmanager accepts the following flag  --sdk root  lt sdkRootPath gt   Use the specified SDK root instead of the SDK                            containing this tool  But if we omit this flag  it assumes parent directory of tools directory as the sdk root  here in our case android-sdk directory  If you check the android-sdk folder after running tools bin sdkmanager --update it will be like   - android-sdk      - tools      - emulator        - platforms        - platform-tool  If needed  also set ANDROID HOME environment variable like  export ANDROID HOME  path to android-sdk

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