Gradle, Android and the ANDROID_HOME SDK location

Question

edit: (aug-2016)

That question is from November 2013 (while Android Studio was still in Developer Preview mode),

Currently (AS v2.2, Aug-2016) during instalation AS asks to choose the SDK folder (or install on their default) and it automatically applies to which ever project you're opening.

That means any possible workaround or fix is irrelevant as the issue is not reproducible anymore.

original question:

we have this project with several modules that is already configured and executes correctly on another developer PC using a wrapper. I cloned the complete git submodules into my machine.

Below it's a directly print of my command line:

$ ./gradlew

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/budius/project_name/ActionBar-PullToRefresh/library/build.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':ActionBar-PullToRefresh:library'.
> SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 6.378 secs

$ echo $ANDROID_HOME
/home/budius/Applications/android-studio/sdk
$ 

so, as you can see the ANDROID_HOME is there. What else do they want? What's wrong here.

running on Ubuntu 13.04

edit:

I already created a local.properties file with sdk.dir=<path> on the project root and it works. But that makes the code harder to port across systems n build server, so the question is still open.

Anyone knows why the ANDROID_HOME is not working and what to do to make it work?

Answer 1

On OSX, IntelliJ won't pick up the environment variables you set in your .bash_profile or .bash_rc etc...

Try this, substituting the value of your own sdk location:

launchctl setenv ANDROID_HOME /usr/local/opt/android-sdk

Then restart IntelliJ and Bob's your uncle.

Here is a reference to the problem, stated more generally: https://emmanuelbernard.com/blog/2012/05/09/setting-global-variables-intellij/

Answer 2

i encountered the same error but in my case i was cloning a project, the cloned project was built with Android API 22 which i did not install at the time(i had API 24 and 25 installed)........so i had to download the sdk tools for API 22

Answer 3

I have faced with the same issue on Ubuntu(both local.properties and ANDROID_HOME was added), but build fail persisted. So workaround is to add following lines

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/<user>/Android/Sdk export PATH=$PATH:/home/<user>/Android/Sdk/tools

directly to the studio.sh script (inside /usr/local/android-studio/bin)

Maybe it will be helpful.

Answer 4

In Linux, try to run studio.sh from a terminal and set the ANDROID_HOME in this terminal. This worked for me.

Answer 5

export ANDROID_HOME=/xxx/xxx/ in shell, then use it by System.env.ANDROID_HOME in gradle file.

PS: don't forget the 'export' keywords to make the ANDROID_HOME global.

Answer 6

I came across a similar problem. Somehow, I did not have a build folder in my project. By copying this folder from another project to my project I was having an issue with, this fixed this problem.