I got following error when importing project in Intellij Idea (Community Edition) 2016.2.1 EAP

Question

The Logcat shows the following error :-

 Error:(18, 1) A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.

SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable.

I have search out for this but don't find local.properties . Can anyone solve this?

Possible duplicate of [SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID\_HOME environment variable](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27620262/sdk-location-not-found-define-location-with-sdk-dir-in-the-local-properties-fil) — Harshad Pansuriya, Jul 21 '16 at 05:34
The `local.properties` file goes in the project's root level, in the same folder as the `gradlew`, `gradlew.bat`, `settings.gradle` and other files. — Harshad Pansuriya, Jul 21 '16 at 05:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '16 at 05:33

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Error says it all

Your local.properties file should contain, in my case this line

sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\johnrao\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk

answered Jul 21 '16 at 05:33

johnrao07

But in Inetllij Idea 2016.2.1 don't find .local properties.Where is this file? – Ishwinder Jul 21 '16 at 05:36
if you don't , then create one inside your project diectory – johnrao07 Jul 21 '16 at 05:37
Can you please tell me how to create it. – Ishwinder Jul 21 '16 at 05:41
open your fav text editor , paste that line, edit it to point to your sdk..then save it as local.properties, then paste it in your project directory – johnrao07 Jul 21 '16 at 05:45
sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\hp-\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk my sdk is this and I do all you say but still shows an error – Ishwinder Jul 21 '16 at 05:54
try setting ANDROID_HOME environment variable then – johnrao07 Jul 21 '16 at 05:56
thanks It works actually I copied the file at wrong location.Now I changed the location so It works – Ishwinder Jul 21 '16 at 05:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '16 at 05:45

As your Error say that

SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable

to solve it you have to create it.

Note : This file in automatically createed. but as you can say that the file is not found. Then you have create it .

The local.properties file goes in the project's root level, in the same folder as the gradlew, gradlew.bat, settings.gradle and other files.

in local.properties contain this thing.

sdk.dir=C\:\\Program Files (x86)\\Android\\android-studio\\sdk

Note : the sdk.dir= reference to the location of the Android Studio SDK installation (which may be different on different machines

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