Finding Android SDK on Mac and adding to PATH

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I have installed Android Studio on my MacBook Air  OS Version 10 11 El Capitan  and have successfully written a small  hello  world  app and installed on device  Nexus 7  and ran on AVD   All I want to do now is be able to build the app and install it on device from the command line as opposed to Android Studio   I m following the directions here   http   developer android com training basics firstapp running-app html  and the relevant line is   Make sure the Android SDK platform-tools  directory is included in your PATH environment variable  then execute   The problem is I can t find the Android SDK on my machine   I assume it s there because otherwise the program wouldn t compile and run through Android Studio   Perhaps that s a bad assumption   I m new to Macs  I m used to Windows  so I don t know the best way to search for the Android SDK   So my questions    How do I find Android SDK on my machine  Or prove to myself it s not there  If it s not there how do I install it  How do I change PATH to include Android SDK

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If you don t want to open Android Studio just to modify your path     They live here with a default installation     HOME  Library Android sdk tools   HOME  Library Android sdk platform-tools   Here s what you want to add to your  bashwhatever  export PATH    HOME  Library Android sdk tools   HOME  Library Android sdk platform-tools   PATH

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In my case  I had to create local properties file with sdk dir PATH TO ANDROID SDK in my machine  It seems that  it s regarding the android sdk path setup  Hence  it could also be set in ANDROID HOME env  variable too

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If Android Studio shows you the path  Users  lt name gt  Library Android sdk  but you can not find it in your folder  just right-click and select  Show View Option   There you will be able to select  Show Library Folder   select it and you can access the SDK

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How do I find Android SDK on my machine  Or prove to myself it s not there       When you install Android studio  it allows you to choose if you want to download SDK or not        If it s not there how do I install it       you can get SDK from here http   developer android com sdk index html        How do I change PATH to include Android SDK       in Android Studio click in File    Settings

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AndroidStudioFrontScreenI simply double clicked the Android dmg install file that I saved on the hard drive and when the initial screen came up I dragged the icon for Android Studio into the Applications folder  now I know where it is    Also when you run it  be sure to right click the Android Studio while on the Dock and select  Options  -   Keep on Dock   Everything else works  Dr  Roger Webster

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For Visual Studio for Mac users  e g  who installed Android SDK together with VS    open Visual Studio for Mac select from menu  Tools - gt  SDK Manager - gt  Select 3rd tab   Localizations  in dialog  You can find JDK  Android NDK and Android SDK localizations there  if installed and selected   If no Android SDK path found  you may try to find it using Android Studio  if it is installed

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Find the Android SDK location  Android Studio     gt  Preferences    gt  Appearance  amp  Behaviour    gt  System Settings     gt  Android SDK    gt  Android SDK Location   Create a  bash profile file for your environment variables   Open the Terminal app Go to your home directory via cd   Create the file with touch  bash profile   Add the PATH variable to your  bash profile   Open the file via open  bash profile Add export PATH  PATH   your SDK location   platform-tools to the file and hit  s to save it  By default it s   export PATH  PATH  Users yourUserName Library Android sdk platform-tools Go back to your Terminal App and load the variable with source    bash profile

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1  How to find it   Open Android studio  go to Android Studio   Preferences Search for sdk Something similar to this  this is a Windows box as you can see  will show    You can see the location there     most of the time it is    Users  lt name gt  Library Android sdk   2  How to install it  if not there   Go to Android standalone SDK download page Download the zip file for macOS Extract it to a directory     3  How to add it to the path  Open your Terminal edit your    bash profile file in nano by typing   nano    bash profile   If you use Zsh  edit    zshrc instead   Go to the end of the file and add the directory path to your  PATH   export PATH    HOME  Library Android sdk tools   HOME  Library Android sdk platform-tools   PATH      Save it by pressing Ctrl X Restart the Terminal To see if it is working or not  type in the name of any file or binary which are inside the directories that you ve added  e g  adb  and verify it is opened executed

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The default path of Android SDK is  Users  lt username gt  Library Android sdk  you can refer to this post   add this to your  bash profile to add the environment variable  export PATH   Users  lt username gt  Library Android sdk tools  Users  lt username gt  Library Android sdk build-tools   PATH     Then save the file    load it  source    bash profile

[android] Finding Android SDK on Mac and adding to PATH

They live here with a default installation:

Here's what you want to add to your `.bashwhatever`

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