




This tutorial is a just step by step for installing Android SDK (Software Development Kit) assuming the user is starting from scratch. If needed, also set ANDROID_HOME environment variable like: export ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/android-sdk If you check the android-sdk folder after running tools/bin/sdkmanager -update it will be like: +- android-sdk The sdkmanager accepts the following flag: -sdk_root=: Use the specified SDK root instead of the SDKīut if we omit this flag, it assumes parent directory of tools directory as the sdk root, here in our case android-sdk directory. To get the SDK packages we could run: tools/bin/sdkmanager -update This extracts content to a single directory named tools, like: +- android-sdk Sdk-tools-linux-*.zip only includes the command-line tools. Tools/bin/sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms android–27" "build-tools 27.0.3" You can also use the sdkmanager to list and to install any specific packages needed. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11Īndroid Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based onIntelliJ IDEA .When executing the above commands, make sure that you replace * with an appropriate version number which you could find in the download page.
