Android SDK and Path

Question

Since I've downloaded the Android development kit as a package (sdk, eclipse bundled together), I extracted it into /opt/android/sdk

I ran the command nano ~/.bashrc command and opened the file. Now I set the path as below

export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android/sdk/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android/sdk/platform-tools
export ANDROID_SDK_HOME ={PATH}:/opt/android/sdk

But it doesn't seem to help at all, when I run ddms in command prompt I get error message saying no command ddmds found.

If we set the path variable in windows correctly the ddms command would work correctly. I assume its a problem with the way I set the path.

Can someone please help me out. Thanks.

Solution 1

I don't know what happened as I don't know much technical details behind it. but I removed the following line

export ANDROID_SDK_HOME ={PATH}:/opt/android/sdk

and restarted the terminal and ran ddms it worked.

Solution 2

The correct configuration in your case would look like this:

export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Note that the environment variable is called ANDROID_HOME, not ANDROID_SDK_HOME. Also, the third line in your sample was missing a $ sign (and contained an additional space). Lastly, there is no need to repeat the same path (DRY) - just use the already defined variable.

EDIT (2020-03-08):

While the ANDROID_SDK environment variable still continues to work for the most part, it has been deprecated by Google, and replaced with ANDROID_SDK_ROOT. So you might want to use the new name for a new setup.

More details: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/variables