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you786
you786

Reputation: 3550

Android SDK platforms between Linux and Windows

I'm dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux. Can I just copy my existing Android SDK platforms from my windows partition to the linux partition? Or are the platforms different? I don't want to waste time redownloading all the packages again.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 5598

Answers (5)

Sneh Pandya
Sneh Pandya

Reputation: 8493

The list of folders that you can share between Linux & Windows file system as they are the same files for Android SDK are below. You can just copy & paste these folders between any OS you use:

add-ons, docs, extras, ndk-bundle, platforms, skins, sources, system-images, tools

Apparently, you will need to download the below folders i.e. SDK Tools differently for each OS, as they are platform dependent tools which rely upon OS like Linux, Windows & Mac OS differently:

build-tools, platform-tools

These two folders don't eat up much of a download bandwidth. So you can easily download it as per the OS you are working on.

I have tested and tried this successfully so far and all worked well with full support. This will save a lot of disk space as well as download bandwidth & time for sure!

Upvotes: 6

Hasan Ali Khattak
Hasan Ali Khattak

Reputation: 163

although i have setup a virtual machine to do android developement but metch is right. it worked for me.

i used bash script with following code to do the symbolic linking

#!/bin/bash
ln -s /home/user/software/sdk/extras /home/user/work/sdk/
ln -s /home/user/software/sdk/platforms /home/user/work/sdk/
ln -s /home/user/software/sdk/samples /home/user/work/sdk/
ln -s /home/user/software/sdk/sources /home/user/work/sdk/
ln -s /home/user/software/sdk/system-images /home/user/work/sdk/

Upvotes: 8

metch
metch

Reputation: 682

Android SDK is platform-dependent. That is right.

But if you want to spare some space, you can share several folders between the two OS. You can link Windows folders in Linux using something like ln -s /media/Windows/sdk/XXX ./XXX for the following independent platform folders :

  • extras
  • platforms
  • samples
  • sources
  • system-images

Then launch the Android SDK on Linux ./tools/android and check if the packages are available or if some are broken.

Upvotes: 21

bowman han
bowman han

Reputation: 1135

well,There are some difference and some simliarity,the folder platforms,platforms-tools,samples,sources can be shared and they are the largest files

you can link these four folders to linux`s sdk folder

ln -s /mnt/path/to/your/windows/sdk/* /home/youname/yourAndroidBundle/sdk/

Upvotes: 1

saurcery
saurcery

Reputation: 2155

Android SDK is platform-dependent. Check this: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Upvotes: 14

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