Error: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH. You must fulfill at least one of these conditions.

Question

I'm trying to install PhoneGap and I'm getting the following error:

Error: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH. You must fulfill at least one of these conditions.

Error (screenshot)

What do I do to ensure Android is set up correctly for use with Cordova?

Solution 1

For Windows:

    set ANDROID_HOME=C:\ *installation location* \android-sdk
    
    set PATH=%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools

Taken from this installation guide.

Solution 2

For Mac OS X:

export ANDROID_HOME=/<installation location>/android-sdk-macosx
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Solution 3

I have MAC OS X Yosemite, Android Studio 1.0.1, JDK 1.8, and Cordova 4.1.2

When I tried to add the android project:

cordova platforms add android

I received the message: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH

Based in cforcloud's answer... 'Error: the command "android" failed' using cordova and http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=studio I used the following:

export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk"
export ANDROID_TOOLS="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk/tools/"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/"
PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS
echo $PATH

When I tried to create the android project, I received this message:

Creating android project...
/Users/lg/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/3.6.4/package/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: Please install Android target "android-19".

I ran Android SDK Manager, and installed Android 4.4.2 (API 19) (everything but Glass Development Kit Preview). It worked for me.

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This is the content of my .bash_profile file.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`
launchctl setenv STUDIO_JDK /library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk
export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/<UserName>/Library/Android/sdk"
export ANDROID_TOOLS="/Users/<UserName>/Library/Android/sdk/tools"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="/Users/<UserName>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"
PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS

To edit .bash_profile using Terminal, I use nano. It is easy to understand.

cd
nano .bash_profile

I hope it helps.

Solution 4

for windows:

Right click on My computer -> properties -> Advanced system setting -> Environment Variables Edit Path on system variables to ;\yourSdkHome\tools;\yourSdkHome\platform-tools.

Then Close your cmd prompt and reopen.

Solution 5

On Linux, add this to the end of your .bashrc, .profile or appropriate file for your shell:

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/youruser/whatever/adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platforms-tools

Please notice that these environment variables will be available for newly created shells, not the already open.

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Comments

[Saurabh Bhandari]

ANDROID_HOME is depreciated now use ANDROID_SDK_ROOT. for more info follow this stackoverflow.com/a/55508862/6190043

[natur3]

is correct. But just in case it wasnt 100% clear to people like myself, in the cmd window from your c:windows\system32\projectname> directory type the set command above for android_home. Side note when I was working with Android Studio my SDKs by default were installed to the following location: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk In short in your cordova directory above type the set ANDROID_HOME=C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Android\andro‌​id-sdk -- press enter then re-run the cordova platform add android and the package and project will get created.

[Ran Davidovitz]

How can we update the documentation for Cordova? (instead of jumping between install and stackoverflow)

[huggie]

I got nothing when I typed android. I can't find and sdk directory under Android Studio.app.

[huggie]

In my case the Android studio setting (File->Project structure->SDK) points back to ADT bundle (/Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130729/)...

[jessiPP]

this worked for me. Your statement "Please notice that these environment variables will be available for newly created shells, not the already open." is what helped me to realize i have to redo this.

[Svavar]

For me my <installation location> was ~/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/sdk so the first command was export ANDROID_HOME=~/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/sdk.

[AGDM]

for me: export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/

[NBoymanns]

Thanks this also worked for me! But every time I open a new terminal I must set the PATH, is there a way to do set the PATH permanent?

[lgm]

Include the PATH in the .bash_profile file. I added instructions in the previous comment.

[Abhijeet]

Just setting the ANDROID_HOME does it for me, additionally had to make sure that I had Android 19.0 installed as I tried to add platform to Android project.

[rekordboy]

Do you need the braces around the 'PATH' as shown above? I'm having a hello of a time getting my hybrid environment set up. But I am new to mac? I had no issues in windows :| but I still love my new mac!

[WillJones]

This was very clear and worked for me, much better than all the other answers! I didn't know where I would find the SDK on my system.

[Dibish]

To set ANDROID_HOME permanently Right click on My Computer>Properties>Advanced System Settings>Environment variables > 1. Add system variable name = "ANDROID_HOME" value = "E:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Android\sdk" (Enter your android sdk path here) 2. Above system varialbe you can see your PATH, Edit PATH "%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools" save

[Medet Tleukabiluly]

note that sometimes your $PATH variable get's pretty messy, and cannot be longer than 256 symbols, so u should use helper vars

[hash]

Sorry i didn't understand.how can i use helper vars?

[Bhupinder]

I was facing same issue. Problem in my case was I was not running above commands as root user. I executed as root and everything worked fine.

[Josh McKearin]

This post is for windows.

[Ruwantha]

You may need to get new CMD after setting the ANT_HOME

[whyoz]

you may need to close and reopen AS a few times for this to take affect...for some reason it started working after changing the variables a few times and restarting AS, then back to this solution and it should work..don't give up on this, even for Android Studio v2

[Kartiikeya]

Not working for me ?? My SDK location is in E drive.. whether it should be in C drive ??

[mhcarneiro]

Perfect, I needed to restart my computer for it to work, but it did.

[peteb]

@Dibish this worked for me. If adding from the GUI, make sure to add the Environment Variables to the System Variables and not the User Variables.

[Caio Kawasaki]

I just inserted the variables in this file: sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

[Dev Yego]

@lgm, was it necessary to include the ANDROID_TOOLS and ADROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS?

[Dev Yego]

Wouldn't these settings be lost when you reboot? I mean just exporting them this way without actually touching the .bashrc file.

[Quique]

As it says above: add this to the end of your .bashrc, .profile or appropriate file

[TipVisor]

How to check if the ANDROID_HOME path is correct by a command prompt?

[roshnet]

For those who are gonna copy this, platforms-tools should be platform-tools.

[Madhu Velpuri]

i did it in Big Sur and using zshenv. but when i close terminals and restart the machine, unable to find saved paths. PATH or ANDROID_HOME or JAVA_HOME

[Fil]

@TipVisor: with the command "set". If you have grep for windows your command can be "set | grep -i android_home" to see only one line (is set) or nothing (not set).