Use this tag for questions/doubts/problems about downloading the Android SDK tools, platforms, and other components you need to develop your apps, using the Android SDK Manager. Do not use the tag for questions not related to the usage of the Android SDK Manager. Also, realize that there are differences between the Android's standalone SDK Manager and the one integrated in Android Studio.
Questions tagged [android-sdk-manager]
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How do I download the Android SDK without downloading Android Studio?
As of the moment, I am running a Windows 8.1 PC that does not have the storage or the RAM for a IDE like Android Studio or Eclipse. I want to download the Android SDK tools, without the IDE. How can this be accomplished?

L.C.J
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No version of NDK matched the requested version
After updating to Android Gradle plugin 3.6.0 (released Feb 24, 2020), several project independently started failing with:
No version of NDK matched the requested version 20.0.5594570. Versions available locally: 21.0.6113669
It's quite simple to…

friederbluemle
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Android Command line tools sdkmanager always shows: Warning: Could not create settings
I use the new command line tools for Android because the old sdk-tools repository of Android isn't available anymore. So I changed my gitlab-ci to load the commandlintools. But when I try to run it I get the following error:
Warning: Could not…

kaulex
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Failed to run sdkmanager --list with Java 9
I downloaded and installed:
JDK (jdk-9.0.1_osx-x64_bin.dmg) from Oracle here
Android SDK (sdk-tools-darwin-3859397.zip) from Google here.
After configuring the PATH variable, I tried running sdkmanager, which replaced the android command for…

Siu Ching Pong -Asuka Kenji-
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Flutter does not find android sdk
I just tried intalling flutter and since I already had android studio and the android sdk installed I just followed the installation of flutter. Here is my problem: When I run
flutter doctor
It tells me
[√] Flutter (Channel beta, v0.1.5, on…

Stein.
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Is GUI for Android SDK manager gone?
I rarely do something for Android so I'm a bit confused. While back there were two type of installations - Android Studio and just Android SDK. I have IDEA so I don't need Studio. Typically I download SDK that have UI tool to download its…

expert
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"sdkmanager: command not found" after installing Android SDK
I installed via apt-get install android-sdk.
However, doing a find / -name sdkmanager reveals there is no such binary anywhere on the system.
On my Mac, the binary exists in $ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin.
However, on the Ubuntu system (the system with the…

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android what is the difference between Android Support Repository vs Android Support Library vs Google Repository vs Google Play Services
Can somebody explain me please what is the difference between Android Support Repository vs Android Support Library vs Google Repository vs Google Play Services?
My understanding is that Google Repository is identical with Google Play Services just…

Maria
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clang: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm building a substratum theme from https://github.com/substratum/template
I'm getting the following errors on run:
Build command failed.
Error while executing process /home/anubhav/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/ndk-build with arguments…

Anubhav Das
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Android SDK Manager - Do you need to install all Android platforms?
I just recently downloaded the Android SDK.
Downloading all the packages in the "SDK Manager" will take way too much time. So I'm wondering whether I should deselect all the platforms except the latest one.
Do I need all the platforms or which ones…

Anay Karnik
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Android sdkmanager tool not found
I newly started using Ubuntu 18.0 LTS this week, switching from Windows, and wanted to install Android Studio and Flutter back. I followed all the steps as said to install Android Studio and it is working fine with all the SDKs. However, when I…

Aditya Nigam
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Can't update \tools - Android SDK Command Line Tools for Windows
I have just downloaded the Android SDK Command Line tools for Windows (26.0.2). I am attempting to download selected SDK components using \tools\bin\sdkmanager.bat, as well as updating \tools. The installation fails with the following…

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How to make Flutter work on WSL2 using host's emulator?
This issue was a headache, so I wish to share my solution. It starts installing requirements for Android SDK (without installing Android Studio), Dart and Flutter, and it finalizes running a Flutter app on Windows host.
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Ουιλιαμ Αρκευα
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Unknown error: Unable to build: the file dx.jar was not loaded from the SDK folder
When I try to run my Android project on Eclipse ADT, I see this in the Console:
[2017-03-24 15:34:41 - Dex Loader] Failed to load C:\Users\jaimemontoya\android-sdks\build-tools\26.0.0-preview\lib\dx.jar
[2017-03-24 15:34:41 - CouponClub] Unknown…

Jaime Montoya
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What is the difference between Google APIs in Android SDK
Since android 5.0, Google added Google APIs. what is that exactly?
And what is the difference between Google APIs intel atom_64 x86 system image and Google APIs intel atom x86 system image?
I know that intel atom images is much faster, but there is…

humazed
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