Building Ionic app for Android on Linux fails with

Question

I'm trying to build a default example app on Linux/Ubuntu 14.04 for Android.

I get a standard error message when doing sudo ionic build android:

Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable. Try setting setting it manually.

(see full log down below)

But if I do

echo $ANDROID_HOME && echo $JAVA_HOME && echo $ANT_HOME

/home/user3123726/Android/Sdk

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

/usr/bin/ant

And command android and cordova are also available.

• Android SDK is installed with all platform targets currently available (plus Android SDK Tools,Platform-Tools and Build tools)
• npm 3.3.9 and Node 4.2.2 is installed
• Cordova 5.3.3 was installed via npm
• Ionic 1.7.7 was installed via npm
• Apache Ant 1.9.3

ANDROID_HOME also defined on .bashrc:

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/user3123726/Android/Sdk

export PATH=${PATH}:/home/user3123726/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:/home/user3123726/Android/Sdk/tools

I have no idea what is the reason that the build process fails. Any help is appreciated - thanks!

Here full log of ionic project creation (basically create,add platform and build):

ionic start myApp tabs

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip

[=============================] 100% 0.0s

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip

[=============================] 100% 0.0s

Updated the hooks directory to have execute permissions Update Config.xml Initializing cordova project

Your Ionic project is ready to go! Some quick tips: [... shortened]

cd myApp

sudo ionic platform add android

Updated the hooks directory to have execute permissions

Downloading Default Ionic Resources

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-default-resources/archive/master.zip

[=============================] 100% 0.0s

Done adding default Ionic resources

Adding icons for platform: android

Adding android project...

Creating Cordova project for the Android platform:

Path: platforms/android

Package: com.ionicframework.myapp809922

Name: myApp

Activity: MainActivity

Android target: android-22

Copying template files...

Android project created with cordova-android@4.1.1

Running command: /home/user3123726/testing/myApp/hooks/after_prepare/010_add_platform_class.js /home/user3123726/testing/myApp

add to body class: platform-android

Saving platform to package.json file

sudo ionic build android

Running command: /home/user3123726/testing/myApp/hooks/after_prepare/010_add_platform_class.js /home/user3123726/testing/myApp

add to body class: platform-android

Running command: /home/user3123726/testing/myApp/platforms/android/cordova/build

[Error: Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable. Try setting setting it manually.

Failed to find 'android' command in your 'PATH'. Try update your 'PATH' to include path to valid SDK directory.]

ERROR building one of the platforms: Error: /home/user3123726/testing/myApp/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 2

You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project

Error: /home/user3123726/testing/myApp/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 2

at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:139:23)

at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)

at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)

at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:818:16)

at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)

Answer 1

Fixed it:

Was a permission problem

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/user3123726/.cordova

to give cordova the rights

and did

ionic add platform android

ionic build android

without sudo ;)