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.
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I install it using Android Studio and i found it here: /Users/username/Library/Android/sdk
netcyrax
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Check here too /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/
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8Good answer -- if and only if you have installed the SDK with brew! – Sean Owen Sep 17 '14 at 10:40
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I also found it in the gradle properties of my project:
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- local.properties for gradle SDK
- Even tells you location of SDK with path, time stamp and location
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If you have access to the Android SDK Manager you can look at the top of the window.
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/Applications is the most natural place. Maybe /usr/local for the old Unix folks.
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Check out the link http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio0814inbetachannel and http://tools.android.com/knownissues – Ryan Heitner Mar 25 '15 at 12:25
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I see though isnt that a function of Android Studio? I do not use it but I have no problems. – Sean Owen Mar 25 '15 at 12:52
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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
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It could be any location on your Mac. Preferable where you have Read,Write and Execute Access. Please note this is just a starter kit. Android SDK Manager would add packages depending on the platforms you need.
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