Android SDK Installation Folder on OS X

Question

Any best practices/recommendations on the installation folder for the Android SDK? Following http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html on OS X and Step 2. "...unpack it to a safe location on your machine..." makes no sense at all for me coming from Windows.

Answer 1

4/1/16

I also found it in the gradle properties of my project:

1. Expand Project
2. local.properties for gradle SDK
3. Even tells you location of SDK with path, time stamp and location

Answer 2

I install it using Android Studio and i found it here: /Users/username/Library/Android/sdk

Answer 3

MacOs Android Studio

Just create a blank project. Go the project explore panel and open the local.properties file. You can find the SDK path as below.

sdk.dir=/Users/{USER}/Library/Android/sdk

Answer 4

/Applications is the most natural place. Maybe /usr/local for the old Unix folks.

Answer 5

Check here too /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/

Answer 6

If you have access to the Android SDK Manager you can look at the top of the window.