Where to install Android SDK on Mac OS X?

Where s开发者_JS百科hould the Android SDK be installed on Mac OS X?

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The easiest (and standard) way to install Android SDK under OS X is to use brew.

brew install android-sdk

If you do not have homebrew, here's how to get it.

This will install Android SDK into /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/ and, at this moment, this is the best location to install it.

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In homebrew the android-sdk has migrated from homebrew/core to homebrew/cask.

brew tap homebrew/cask

and install android-sdk using

brew install android-sdk --cask 

You will have to add the ANDROID_HOME to profile (.zshrc or .bashrc)

export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/share/android-sdk

If you prefer otherwise, copy the package to

~/opt/local/android-sdk-mac

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When I installed Android Studio 1.0 it ended up in

/Library/Android/sdk/

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My personal preference is to put it in ~/opt/local/android-sdk-mac or /Developer/android-sdk-mac the latter being where Xcode and all the Apple Dev tools are held.

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By default the android sdk installer path is ~/Library/Android/sdk/

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You can install android-sdk in different ways

1. homebrew
   Install brew using command from brew.sh

   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"  
   

   Install android-sdk using

   brew install android-sdk
   

   Now android-sdk will be installed in /usr/local/opt/android-sdk

   export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/opt/android-sdk
   

2. If you installed android studio following the website,
   android-sdk will be installed in ~/Library/Android/sdk

   export ANDROID_HOME=~/Library/Android/sdk
   

I think these defaults make sense and its better to stick to it

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From http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, it seems that you can install the SDK anywhere, so long as you

1. "execute the android tool in the <sdk>/tools/ folder"
2. Add the <sdk>/tools directory to your system path

More info can be found here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html

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I just have mine in MyUser/Documents/Development. I'm the only one that used my Mac, so I didn't need to worry about making it accessible system-wide.

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I put mine in /Developer/SDKs I had to authenticate to do that…but since there's no consensus I thought that it sounded like a place I'd remember.

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I ended up placing my at ~/sdks/android-sdk-mac_x86. I like to keep all of my SDKs in one place and for me an sdk folder under my home directory makes the most sense.

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brew install android-sdk --cask 

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I have been toying with this as well. I initially had it in my documents folder, but decided that didn't make 'philosophical' sense. I decided to create an Android directory in my home folder and place Eclipse and the Android SKK in there.

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A simple way is changing to required sdk in some android project the number of

compileSdkVersion

in build.gradle file and you can install with the manager