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

Question

I recently tried to import sample Android games I downloaded from Google's developer website. After importing them into Android Studio, I'm getting the following error:

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

What is this? I want to run the sample programs from Android Studio.

Answer 1

If you are coming here because you have a problem while building Android App, locally in Expo React Native, just open your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc file, and add this:

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk

Then close the terminal, open it again, and run the build again (eas build -p android --local)

Answer 2

Please follow bellow points it work's for me:

1. Go to your Project -> Android
2. Create a file local.properties
3. Open the file
4. Paste your Android SDK path depending on the operating system:

4.a Windows

 sdk.dir = C://Users//USERNAME//AppData//Local//Android//sdk

4.b Linux or MacOS

sdk.dir = /home/USERNAME/Android/sdk

Replace USERNAME with your username

Answer 3

This problem is encountered when you try to import an Android Studio project from the ../app/build.gradle file.

Import the project by selecting the ../build.gradle file located in the root directory of your project.

Answer 4

Sync Project with Gradle Files

Answer 5

here is my solution it worked for it might help someone else, go to your file -> repair ide.

prompt will appear below asking to re scan project indexes, it will look through your files and fix missing files, after it finishes it will ask your to invalidate caches and restart, make sure to tick the two optionals:

Answer 6

Please follow the below steps:

• Go to your react-native Project then go to the android directory Create a file with the following name:

local.properties

• Open the file and paste your Android SDK path like below:

For windows users:

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

or (for newer versions of Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA):

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

Where USERNAME your PC user name. Also, make sure the folder is sdk or Sdk.

Example:

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

or:

sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk

For Mac users:

sdk.dir = /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk

Where USERNAME is your OSX username.

For Linux (Ubuntu) users:

sdk.dir = /home/USERNAME/Android/Sdk

Where USERNAME is your linux username (Linux paths are case-sensitive: make sure the case of S in Sdk matches)

In case this doesn't work, add ANDROID_HOME variable in "Environment Variables" as C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

Answer 7

You have to just copy your local.properties file to the folder where project is stored and it will work like charm. But remember, it must be placed in the root folder where the project is stored.

Answer 8

I also tried the above all solutions but it's not working . Then i checked the ANDROID_HOME variable. There i put one extra space after the variable name.Then i removed that space, and checked .it's working.So please make sure there should not be any extra space before and after the ANDROID_HOME variable

Answer 9

The part in the setting.gradle file was as follows.

rootProject.name = "SampleProject" include ':app'

'local.properties' file was created by changing the above piece of code as below and the problem was solved.

include ':app' rootProject.name = "SampleProject"

In short, moving the include ':app' part to the top solved the problem.

Answer 10

Go to the android folder and create local.properties files and paste your SDK path

Answer 11

I solved that issue with File/Invalide cache/Restart, then click on Set SDK.... when prompted by the error.

Answer 12

• first scenario :-

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look for local.properties file in your project and set sdk path.

• second scenario :-

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if you you don't have one then copy from other project and set it according your sdk path .

Answer 13

If you are using Flutter you clearly try to change the name from Androidmainfest.xml just don't change it back to the old name some packages would help you with that in pub.dev

Answer 14

Open Android Studio, go to the File menu and select File Structure and specify an SDK with compileSdkVersion or targetSdkVersion that you defined in the "app/build.gradle" file.

Answer 15

I had a situation where I already had the local.properties file set up but I was still getting this error. Turns out, if your project has a submodule, you have to copy the local.properties into the submodule folder as well.

Answer 16

1. Go to your React-native Project -> Android

2. Create a file local.properties

3. Open the file

4. paste your Android SDK path like below

    in Windows sdk.dir = C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk
   
    in macOS sdk.dir = /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk
   
    in linux sdk.dir = /home/USERNAME/Android/Sdk
   

5. Replace USERNAME with your user name

6. Now, Run the react-native run-android in your terminal

or

Sometimes project might be missing a settings.gradle file. Make sure that file exists from the project you are importing. If not add the settings.gradle file with the following :

include ':app'

Save the file and put it at the top level folder in your project.

Answer 17

There can be two different possibilities :

1). Either you SDK location is incorrect in local.properites file.

2). Or the file is missing, this can happen if you have cloned a project, so just create a local.properites file under Gradle Scripts foler, and then set up the sdk path.

Set up the correct sdk path like this :

sdk.dir=YOUR_PATH_TO_THE_SDK

For mac users the path should be:

/Users/USER_NAME/Library/Android/sdk

For windows users the path should be:

c:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk 

Answer 18

1. Go to your local properties file

2. Check the Sdk location (It might have been changed if you have imported file with a another user's Sdk location, find yours and get it right, that's it).

Answer 19

As I checked that some are still getting error when they create local.properties file in Android directory and writes the path. The reason you're getting error is because there's spelling mistake in writing path.

Answer 20

The issue I had is that local.properties was committed into git repository even though it says explicitly not to do it ## This file must *NOT* be checked into Version Control Systems,.

To fix the issue locally on MacOS I just went to File > Project Structure... in Android Studio and it fixed it automatically.

To fix the issue in the git I executed the following commands in the project root directory:

echo -e "\nlocal.properties" >> .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git rm local.properties --cached
git commit -m "Removed local.properties from the git"

Answer 21

1. cd ./android, create file file local.properties

2. paste this code sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\muhammad ali\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk

3. change location to as per your sdk is located. you already have local.properties file, good

4. find similar file of code sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\muhammad ali\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk

5. change location to as per your sdk is located

6. run npx react-native run-android

Answer 22

Follow followings steps :

1. Create a file under 'android' folder with name 'local.properties'

2. Add this line in file 'local.properties' as

   sdk.dir=/Users/bijendrasingh/Library/Android/sdk

Add here your android sdk path.

Answer 23

If you are trying to run Google android sample code, try to import the entire repository instead of an individual sample.

Here is instructions.html, included with the Google Calendar API sample code.

• Import calendar-android-sample project
• Select "Import Project..." or File > Import Project...
• Select [someDirectory]/google-api-java-client-samples/build.gradle and click OK.
  • Note: it will not work if you try to import [someDirectory]/google-api-java-client-samples/calendar-android-sample/build.gradle
• Select "Use local gradle distribution" with "Gradle home" of [someDirectory]/gradle-2.2.1 and click OK.

Answer 24

I had this error in flutter so i fixed it by going to android->app->build.gradle

and changing targetSdkVersion from 28 to 29 and compileSdkVersion to 29 from 28 and it worked for me

Answer 25

In my case I was using linux and putting double quote around the path inside local.properties like

sdk.dir = "/root/Android/Sdk/"
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = "/root/Android/Sdk/"

So it should be

sdk.dir = /root/Android/Sdk/
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = /root/Android/Sdk/

and .bash_profile

Answer 26

To know the exact sdk files in your directory, got to android studio, select tools>sdk

just copy and make sure it got double // in your path.

Hope it can help

Answer 27

For me, this problem is caused by opening the cloned project with "open an existing project" instead of "import".

The file "setting.gradle" already exists in the downloaded project. However, it doesn't get picked up by Android Studio using "open an existing project" option, only "import" will impose Android Studio to interpret the whole project settings.

The same idea has been mentioned implicitly in M.Palsich's answer.

Answer 28

In my case i had the error sdk location not found

What i did: I went to the cloned project from git opened the project directory opened the app directory inside the project copied the local.properties file and then pasted it in the project directory Then it worked

Answer 29

Here is a work around for the problem when you click "Run App" (green arrow) and get the following in the Edit Configuration dialog:

Error: Please select Android SDK

In Android Studio, do:

1. From the menu, choose File > Settings.
2. In the settings dialog, go to Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Android SDK.
3. Look at the top for Android SDK Location, and click the Edit button
4. Hit Next, Next, Finish to accept the defaults

This seems to save away the SDK location - even though nothing has changed - into some internal location. I inspected the .idea and .gradle folders but didn't see what Studio did to change a config file - but now I can run the app.

And to summarize the previous fixes - these are normally OK for a repo without build problems:

• local.properties file is copied into the root folder by Studio.

• The path in the local.properties file has the correct path to the android SDK - in my case it is sdk.dir=C:\\android\\sdk (note that this path has a different format - Studio should write this file for you based on the Text Entry field in the Android SDK Settings dialog)

• settings.gradle file is present in the repo - and references the application folder (typically :app)

Answer 30

For me the problem was that I haven't created any virtual devices after fresh installation of android studio. So, expo kept complaining vaguely about the sdk location while the main issue was the missing virtual devices. Hope this helps somebody in the future, had me searching for a couple of hours.

PS: here you can find out how to create one https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds