Finding Android Sdk on Mac and Adding to Path
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...
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:
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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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
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