Finding Android SDK on Mac and adding to PATH
If you don't want to open Android Studio just to modify your path...
They live here with a default installation:
${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/tools
${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
Here's what you want to add to your .bashwhatever
export PATH="${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/tools:${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:${PATH}"
Find the Android SDK location
Android Studio
> Preferences
> Appearance & Behaviour
> System Settings
> Android SDK
> Android SDK Location
Create a .bash_profile
file for your environment variables
- Open the Terminal app
- Go to your home directory via
cd ~
- Create the file with
touch .bash_profile
Add the PATH variable to your .bash_profile
- Open the file via
open .bash_profile
Add
export PATH=$PATH:
[your SDK location]
/platform-tools
to the file and hit⌘s
to save it. By default it's:export PATH=$PATH:/Users/yourUserName/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
Go back to your Terminal App and load the variable with
source ~/.bash_profile
1. How to find it
- Open Android studio, go to Android Studio > Preferences
- Search for
sdk
- Something similar to this (this is a Windows box as you can see) will show
You can see the location there – most of the time it is:
/Users/<name>/Library/Android/sdk
2. How to install it, if not there
- Go to Android standalone SDK download page
- Download the zip file for macOS
- Extract it to a directory
3. How to add it to the path
Open your Terminal edit your ~/.bash_profile
file in nano by typing:
nano ~/.bash_profile
If you use Zsh, edit ~/.zshrc
instead.
Go to the end of the file and add the directory path to your $PATH
:
export PATH="${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/tools:${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:${PATH}"
- Save it by pressing
Ctrl+X
- Restart the Terminal
- To see if it is working or not, type in the name of any file or binary which are inside the directories that you've added (e.g.
adb
) and verify it is opened/executed
- How do I find Android SDK on my machine? Or prove to myself it's not there?
When you install Android studio, it allows you to choose if you want to download SDK or not
- If it's not there how do I install it?
you can get SDK from here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
- How do I change PATH to include Android SDK?
in Android Studio click in File >> Settings