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Setting ANDROID_HOME enviromental variable on Mac OS X

Could anybody post a working solution for setting ANDROID_HOME via the terminal?

My path to the Android-SDK is /Applications/ADT/sdk.

Solution

  • Where the Android-SDK is installed depends on how you installed it.

    1. If you downloaded the SDK through their website and then dragged/dropped the Application to your Applications folder, it's most likely here:

      /Applications/ADT/sdk (as it is in your case).

    2. If you installed the SDK using Homebrew (brew cask install android-sdk), then it's located here:

      /usr/local/Caskroom/android-sdk/{YOUR_SDK_VERSION_NUMBER}

    3. If the SDK was installed automatically as part of Android Studio then it's located here:

      /Users/{YOUR_USER_NAME}/Library/Android/sdk

    Once you know the location, open a terminal window and enter the following (changing out the path to the SDK to be however you installed it):

    export ANDROID_HOME={YOUR_PATH}

    Once you have this set, you need to add this to the PATH environment variable:

    export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

    Lastly apply these changes by re-sourcing .bash_profile:

    source ~/.bash_profile

    1. Type - echo $ANDROID_HOME to check if the home is set.

    echo $ANDROID_HOME