Android SDK manager won t open

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So I installed the android sdk for Windows   http   developer android com sdk index html    the installation link    And ran into the path variable problem  So I fixed that by changing  PATH  in enviroment variables to include where my java exe file is located from the JDK     But now when I open the android sdk manager  a cmd-like screen just briefly flashes on for half a second then disappears  I have no idea what s going on and how to get this thing working

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In the latest version of the Android SDK, running "SDK Manager.exe" and/or "AVD Manager.exe" will not open anymore. Even the "Launch Standalone SDK Manager" link in Android Studio, which can be previously found in Android SDK Settings, is now gone.

It is now recommended to perform manual SDK and AVD management inside Android Studio. But for those who do not have an Android Studio or for those who do not like to open Android Studio just to perform SDK management, you can still manage the SDK using the command line tools, "tools/bin/sdkmanager.bat" and "tools/bin/avdmanager.bat".

This information is available when running "tools/android.bat". I think this is true for those who currently have Android SDK tooks v25.3.1 and above.

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I installed Android Studio for Mac  I was not able to access the SDK manager through the IDE  It turns out I just had to have my JAVA HOME environment variable set  Once I got this set I was able to launch the SDK manager

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I had the same problem  tried setting path variables and everything  What SDK manager needs is not the JDK  but the actual Java SE end user crap  Go to http   www java com en download ie manual jsp locale en and download that  As soon as I finished installing that  it worked like a charm

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Been trying to get the SDK manager to run for a while now following various threads with similar problems I could find   Another solution to consider is to move android SDK to a dir without spaces in its name   For instance in my case it resided in   e  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk    and would fail  When moved to   c  android sdk sucks    It worked

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Alright  I had the same problem  and none of these answers worked for me  I m running Windows 8   I tried running tools android bat and noticed I got some errors there  I investigated further and it seems there is something wrong in the code that finds your Java path   This is how you fix it    Open up tools android bat in your favorite text editor Search for this piece of code   set java exe  call lib find java bat if not defined java exe goto  EOF  Replace it with this    set java exe D  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 07 bin java exe    where the path is the path to your Java exe  Run android bat    in my case I had to specify the path to java exe in step 3 with no quotes to make it work

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I encountered a similar problem where SDK manager would flash a command window and die   This is what worked for me  My processor and OS both are 64-bit  I had installed 64-bit JDK version  The problem wouldn t go away with reinstalling JDK or modifying path  My theory was that SDK Manager may be needed 32-bit version of JDK  Don t know why that should matter but I ended up installing 32-bit version of JDK and magic  And SDK Manager successfully launched

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Make sure your java bin directory is in your path statement before the windows system32 directory   The SDK Manager uses java and it was finding the one in the system32 folder    In a CMD window  you can run  where java   Don t forget to restart your CMD after changing the path variable for checking

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The issue with mine was that I could run SDK manager through double clicking android bat but not when I double click on the actual SDK manager application  I solved this issue by setting a new environmental variable   ANDROID HOME   C  Development adt-bundle-windows-x86 64-20130911 sdk   restarted my pc and now I can double click on the application and run SDK Manager  Hope that helps

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There appear to be several ways to launch the SDK Manager    SDK Manager exe in the root of the Android SDK  SDK Manager exe in sdk tools lib of the Android SDK  Window - gt  Android SDK Manager menu in Eclipse android bat in sdk tools of the Android SDK    In my case  it looks like android bat fails on the line   for  f   a in    java exe  -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a   As far as what that line is doing    if I manually run    path to java java  -jar lib archquery jar  It successfully returns  x86 64  But when the batch file runs that same command  I don t know why but it fails with the error message   Unable to access jarfile lib archquery jar   So the variable swt path gets set to an empty string   Everything breaks down from there   The batch file sets the correct value for the variable java exe   Others have commonly reported this as a problem  but those workarounds weren t relevant in my case   People have recommended commenting out the problem line by adding REM to the beginning of it  and adding a line to manually set the swt path variable  which is a valid workaround   REM for  f   a in    java exe  -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a set swt path lib x86   BUT  the critical issue in my case is that it s choosing to load a jar file from either the lib x86 or the lib x86 64 folder here   At some point  things were getting confused between the BAT file error  a 32-bit JDK  and a 64-bit Android SDK   SO  the workaround in my case was to    Uninstall ALL versions of Java Install the JDK  You can either use the 32-bit Android SDK and install the 32-bit JDK Or use the 64-bit Android SDK and install the 64-bit JDK  But the  bitness  of the JDK should match the Android SDK   It appears that either of the 32-bit or the 64-bit will work on a 64-bit computer  AS LONG AS the JDK bitness matches the Android SDK bitness   Edit  android bat    If using the 32-bit Android SDK JDK  use lib x86   REM for  f   a in    java exe  -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a set swt path lib x86  If using the 64-bit Android SDK JDK  use lib x86 64   REM for  f   a in    java exe  -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a set swt path lib x86 64     After doing this  I can successfully run the SDK Manager by running android bat  or from the Eclipse menu  but still not by running either of the SDK Manager exe files directly

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Locating the android bat file in the tools folder worked for me   Funny that it is such a chore to get it to run  In my experience  usually  exe files run as expected   I m not sure why it doesn t in this case    strange and annoying

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I test every way  But only working way was re Installing sdk-manager in same path as old one

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There are many reasons as to why the SDK Manager won t open   Rather than trying each one of them blindly  I recommend running the android bat in a command window so you can read the error message and apply the correct fix

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I saw answers that provide workaround solutions by hard coding java exe location and x86   x86 64 architecture string in sdk tools android bat  Those are quick solutions but did not solve the fundamental issue that I am actually curious of   The actual problem that I encountered is  the batch script is not able to find another script jar file and thus is failed to proceed  I could say the script was poorly written   After I made the following changes in sdk tools android bat  everything works like a charm   Specifically  I added   dp0    set java exe  call   dp0 lib find java bat if not defined java exe goto  EOF       for  f  delims     a in     java exe   -jar   dp0 lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a   Now  try to launch the script and SDK Manager should come out   p s  My installation of OS  Java 8 and Android SDK are fresh and I did not do any of the extra configuration   p s  You may still need to configure PATH environment variable so that the script could find the suitable java exe

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I recently faced this problem after I installed android emulator using the sdk manager of android studio - which also upgraded my android sdk tools to 26 0 1  as it was a prerequisite - according to the sdk manager of android studio    In my case  I simply replaced the tools folder of android sdk with tools folder from an older android sdk  This downgraded the android sdk tools  but now I can open the sdk manager using SDK Manager exe

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OS  Windows 7- 64 bit  Android SDK  64 bit   Introduce a new  System variable  named  JAVA HOME with value  C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 51  Right-click on SDK Manager exe -  Run as administrator   A check list    Make sure the java path in system variable  Path  is something like  C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 51 bin There is no space in your folder name  replace something like C  Android SDK with C  Android SDK You can find your java with  where java  command in command line

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Nothing helps me from all this answers  but I found the right steps  Windows 7 64 bit    1  Open android bat from your sdk folder for editing   2  Add exactly this two strings    set java exe c  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 25 bin java exe rem call lib find java bat   instead of this   set java exe  call lib find java bat if not defined java exe goto  EOF   Where c  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 25 is your jdk folder  3  Enjoy  SDK Manager will launch from Android studio IDE

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I tried almost all the solutions provided here  But nothing worked out  And finally  I downloaded tools tools r25 2 3-windows zip  from the below link and replaced the tools sub-folder in the sdk folder  It started working   https   developer android com studio index html downloads  Sharing this as an information though it s an old thread

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http   quantumsupport blogspot com 2011 03 android-sdk-managerexe-wont-start html  Create a new user account  either re-install or just start android bat and it should work did for me

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I tried all the most popular solutions before and no one worked for me  until I realised that the Android SDK folder must not have any spaces  so I changed it from  C  Android SDK  to  C  Android SDK   As simple as that

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Google removed the GUI for SDK starting from version 26  If you re using version 26  try downgrading to version 25  You can still open the SDK from Android Studio   Source  Is GUI for Android SDK manager gone

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Same problem here  Fixed  I installed the correct Java stuff  all for 64 bit  because my system is x64  and nothing happened  So I went to C  Users  my name  and deleted the directory  android that has been created the first time the SDK ran  apparently with some wrong configuration   Then it worked  You can try that  Delete that folder or just move it to the desktop and run the SDK

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I have solved this issue  If you are not able to open  SDK Manager exe  from explorer or if you are facing any problem with SDK Manager    Firstly check Java path is given in Environment Variable   run Java command on CMD  or run Where Java on CMD as Administrator   If Java command is recognized  there might not be problem with Java   This might be due to broken SDK Tools  To fix it firstly rename tools folder  Android Sdk tools  to tools old  Now download https   dl google com android  repository tools r25 2 3-windows zip hl id  After that Extract the downloaded zip files to Android Sdk  hence new tools folder would be extracted with all the contents for SDK  Now open SDK Manager exe  If it opens your issue is solved  Please note that SDK Manager exe is a launcher file that launches Android Sdk tools bin sdkmanager bat  if you are satisfied with the answer please Upvote so that maximum users would solve the issue  For further help visit this page https   answers unity com questions 1320150 unable-to-list-target-platform html

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Try adding the Java path  pointing to the JDK  to the System Environment Variables   Right-click  Computer    Properties   Advanced system settings   Environment Variables  Then under System Variables  add a new variable   Variable   Value JAVA PATH  C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0   Then edit the Path variable  prefix it with  JAVA PATH  bin

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The simplest way is to run the program as administartor      Right-click the SDK Manager -  Run as Administrator   That should solve the problem

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I d encountered the same problem  When running the android bat I found the solution  if Java is installed in the  normal  Windows directory  ie  program files   you need to put quotes surrounding  c  program files   etc etc  Otherwise it cannot find java on  C  program    me dislikes spaces

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Same problem here  I tried all solutions but nothing worked  Then I went into C  Users User name and deleted the   android  folder and then  the SDK Manager could open normally  and automatically created other   android  folder

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I had something totally different than the other answers   I ran tools android bat and got  java lang NullPointerException         at java io File  lt init gt  File java 251          at com android sdklib internal avd AvdManager parseAvdInfo AvdManager java 1623          at com android sdklib internal avd AvdManager buildAvdList AvdManager java 1584          at com android sdklib internal avd AvdManager  lt init gt  AvdManager java 357          at com android sdklib internal avd AvdManager getInstance AvdManager java 380          at com android sdklib internal repository updater UpdaterData initSdk UpdaterData java 259          at com android sdklib internal repository updater UpdaterData  lt init gt  UpdaterData java 127          at com android sdkuilib internal repository SwtUpdaterData  lt init gt  SwtUpdaterData java 61          at com android sdkuilib internal repository ui SdkUpdaterWindowImpl2  lt init gt  SdkUpdaterWindowImpl2 java 104          at com android sdkuilib repository SdkUpdaterWindow  lt init gt  SdkUpdaterWindow java 88          at com android sdkmanager Main showSdkManagerWindow Main java 408          at com android sdkmanager Main doAction Main java 391          at com android sdkmanager Main run Main java 151          at com android sdkmanager Main main Main java 117    Basically it looked like I had a corrupt AVD configuration  so I went and cleared out my virtual devices and everything started working again    Files in C  Users YourUser  android avd for windows users

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I faced the same issue and finally managed to solve it  I then created a step-by-step guide containing the universal fix to help all developers get past this issue asap  http   www dominantwire com 2015 03 android-sdk-not-opening html  All the steps in short   1 If you have jdk v1 8  Remove it and re-install jdk v1 7 x x  2 Set paths to jdk and jre bin folders in the environment variables  3 delete  make a backup first  the  android folder present in C    Users    user-name     android  4 Set the JAVA HOME variable keeping JAVA HOME as the variable name and the path to bin folder of jdk as the variable value   5 Go to  sdk-directory    tools  Find and right-click on android bat file and select  edit  to open it in notepad and make the following modifications   ORIGINAL  set java exe  call lib find java bat if not defined java exe goto  EOF   MODIFIED  set java exe C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 75 bin java exe rem call lib find java bat rem if not defined java exe goto  EOF   NOTE   Copy and paste your own java exe path directory as explained previously   ORIGINAL  for  f  delims     a in     java exe   -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a   MODIFIED  rem for  f  delims     a in     java exe   -jar lib archquery jar   do set swt path lib   a set swt path lib x86 64   NOTE   If your android sdk is 64bit then mention set swt path lib x86 64 otherwise if it is 32bit then keep it as set swt path lib x86   Done  Fire up android sdk from android bat file or from eclipse  It should open up just fine

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Also make sure there is not as JRE before your JDK in PATH on Windows   Oracle always stuffs its own JRE into the path before anything else   I had installed Oracle Lite after I installed the android sdk

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