Android SDK installation doesn't find JDK

Question

I'm trying to install the Android SDK on my Windows 7 x64 System. jdk-6u23-windows-x64.exe is installed, but the Android SDK setup refuses to proceed because it doesn't find the JDK installation.

Is this a known issue? And is there a solution?

Answer 1

I copied the Java.exe from

C:\Windows\System32

to

C:\Windows\SysWOW64

and it worked.

I'm using 64 bit Windows 8.

Answer 2

WORKING SOLUTION AND NO REGISTRY MODIFY NEEDED

Simply put your java bin path in front of your PATH environment.

PATH before

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows\%^^&^&^............(old path setting)

PATH after

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows\%^^&^&^............(old path setting)

And now the Android SDK installer is working.

BTW, I'm running Win7 x64.

Answer 3

You will have to download the 32-bit SDK version because Win7 64-bit is not supported only Windows Server 2003 has a supported 64-bit version. During the download of Java SDK pick "Windows" as your platform and not "Windowsx64".
Once I did this android SDK installed like a charm. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I experienced this problem too, but none of the answers helped. What I did, I removed the last backslash from the JAVA_HOME variable and it started working. Also, remember not to include the bin folder in the path.

Answer 5

I downloaded the .zip archive instead and ran SDK Manager.exe, and it worked like a charm. You had the same issue with the .exe otherwise.

Answer 6

None of the solutions here worked for the 64-bit version.

Putting the JDK path before the c:\windows\system32\ path in your environment variables solves the problem. Otherwise the 32-bit java.exe is found before the 64-bit JDK version.