Finding Android SDK on Mac and adding to PATH

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/<name>/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

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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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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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Find the Android SDK location

Android Studio 
  > Preferences
  > Appearance & Behaviour
  > System Settings 
  > Android SDK
  > 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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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?

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If Android Studio shows you the path /Users/<name>/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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The default path of Android SDK is /Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk, you can refer to this post.

add this to your .bash_profile to add the environment variable

export PATH="/Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk/tools:/Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools:${PATH}"

Then save the file.

load it

source ./.bash_profile 

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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 -> SDK Manager -> 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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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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