[android] "SDK Platform Tools component is missing!"

I am trying to add the add SDK Platform 1.6 to an existing Install of 2.2, with the help of this thread.

As suggested, I ran Help ? Check for Updates which found and installed the following:

  + Android DDMS              8.0.1.v201012062107-82219
  + Android Development Tools 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219

It prompted for restarting Eclipse and when it restarted it gave me the following error message:

"SDK Platform Tools component is missing!
Please use the SDK Manager to install it."

Huh? Why? I still have the SDK Platform Tools on C:\android-sdk-windows that was working perfectly before I did this "upgrade".

What do I need to have both 2.2 and 1.6 supported in my development environment?

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Thanks Udit Sood

android.bat update sdk --no-ui not worked on windows 10 powershell but .\android.bat update sdk --no-ui worked


Here is another alternative. Download it directly here: http://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com.ng/p/android-sdk-tools.html.

The present version as of this writing is Android SDK Tools 25.1.7. Unzip it when the download is done and place it in your sdk folder. You can then download other missing files directly from the SDK Manager.


The downloaded sdk software does not contain sdk platform tools.

For this, using cmd go to "C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools" directory and then type the following command to download those missing tools:

android.bat update sdk --no-ui 

Then type y to accept all the licenses in cmd. Downloading will start in cmd itself.


I don't understand why the files were relocated to /platform-tools from /tools. It seems ALL development tools I have tried, appcelerator for one, have their setup software look for these files in /tools and fail setup. The "work around" involves a few different bits of trickery wherein you either...1) set up a soft link to tell the operating system "if you look for file "x" here it is really over here. or 2) simpler method ... make a copy of all the /platform-tools default (pre-additional android sdk installations) files and place them into the /tools folder. this circumvents the relocation that the newer sdk have done. Then of course YOU MUST SET PATH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES TO POINT TO THE SDK LOCATION (sometimes to the Android-sdk-[operating system name:Android-sdk-windows or Android-sdk-mac_x86 ect. ] and to the /platform-tools and sometimes to /tools. it is a trial and error pain. But when it finally is working ...it works.


Before update SDK components, check in Android SDK Manager ? Tools ? Options and set HTTP proxy and port if it is set in local LAN.


step 1: click on the blue icon on taskbar. It is "SDK MANAGER". Then next click on the Appearance & Behaviour -> System Settings -> Android Sdk

step2: select on "Android SDK location" and choose edit option.It will prompt you update/install the components. Then start the download or update and this may take a while , all you have to do is wait patiently. "In case you have previously installed the sdk it will show that the sdk android sdk is installed"

step3: once this is done the program will compile fine ,and no error will exist whatsoever.


Installing Android SDKs is done via the "Android SDK and AVD Manager"... there's a shortcut on Eclipse's "Window" menu, or you can run the .exe from the root of your existing Android SDK installation.

Yes I think installing the 2.3 SDK will fix your problem... you can install older SDKs at the same time. The important thing is that the structure of the SDK changed in 2.3 with some tools (such as ADB) moving from sdkroot\tools to sdkroot\platform-tools. Quite possibly the very latest ADT plugin isn't massively backwards-compatible re that change.


I have been faced with a similar problem with SDK 24.0.2, and ADT 23.0, on windows 7 and Eclipse Luna (4.4.0). The android SDK Manager comes with default Proxy IP of 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and port 8081. So as you try to run the SDK Managers as advised by earlier solutions, it will try to connect through the default proxy settings, which keep on failing(...at least on my system). Therefore, if you do not need proxy settings, simply clear default proxy settings (i.e. remove proxy server IP and Port, leaving the fields empty). Otherwise set them as necessary. To access these settings in eclipse, go Window-> Android SDK Manager->Tools->Options.

Hope this helps someone.


The latest version of the Android SDK ships with two different applications: an SDK Manager and an AVD Manager rather than one single app that was valid when this question was originally asked.

My particular problem was unrelated to the other suggestions. I'm on a network at the moment where HTTPS traffic is mostly disallowed. In order to install the Android Platform Tools I needed to turn on the option to "Force https://... sources to be fetched using http://..." and then this allowed me to install the other tools.


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