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.

Solution 1

Please follow below steps it work's for me:

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

Replace UserName with your pc user name . Also make sure the folder is sdk or Sdk. In my case my computer user name is Zahid so the path look like:

sdk.dir=C:\\Users\\Zahid\\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 if this doesn't work, add ANDROID_HOME variable in "Environment Variables" as C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

Solution 2

The 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.

Solution 3

I know this answer is late, but I hope it helps others.

The answer is simple. 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.

Solution 4

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 user name

Solution 5

Check out in your local.properties file

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

properly write this format, and also check / slas using for path

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Comments

[Sameer Shamsudeen]

I edited local.properties with this sdk.dir=C:\\Users\\sameer\\Android\\adt-bundle-windows-x86-2‌​0140702\\sdk, any error in this

[Qutbuddin Bohra]

yeah after C put \ ... Svae with thishope done. sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\sameer\\Android\\adt-bundle-windows-x86-‌​20140702\\sdk

[George Papatheodorou]

This works nice with eclipse. Just create the file local.properties within the downloaded project and paste the sdk.dir . In my case it was : "sdk.dir=C\:\\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140321\\sdk"

[pblead26]

But I have to copy it everytime? This seems like a hack than the correct approach

[Harsh Mittal]

Its is the most easy solution for this problem as you dont have to change anything in project. There are also other solution in which you have to do change in code , but I think for such issue one cannot afford to waste much time.

[Tot Zam]

How can I tell if my project is missing settings.gradle? Where is that file usually stored? Where do I type include ':app'? What exactly does include ':app' do/generate? Can you please add more detail to your answer?

[Joseph]

@TotZam its stored in the root of your project

[Tot Zam]

Found it. Thanks. For future reference, where would I run include ':app'? I'm quite new to Android and trying to find my way around.

[Joseph]

You don't run include :app, if you are using Android Studio, that lets Android Studio add your project module so you can run it without further configuration. After you add the line in settings.gradle you will notice the Play button becomes active after gradle finishes building and downloading packages

[Priyank Patel]

Put your project folder name instead of 'app' if it's different. It works.

[user1147171]

This worked for me when I had this issue after downloading ExoPlayer 2.1.

[Vinay Vissh]

Thanks a lot! It helped in importing MPAndroidChart Example which was just stuck at this error :P

[yashhy]

if anyone facing You have not accepted the license agreements... error after the above step see here stackoverflow.com/a/41078173/1778834

[yashhy]

if anyone facing You have not accepted the license agreements... error after the above step see here stackoverflow.com/a/41078173/1778834

[Rohan Gala]

I have installed android on my windows 10 m/c but there is no such folder sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Android?

[Mayur Baldha]

My android SDK is in D:\Tools\Android\ directory not in C:\ setting sdk.dir=D:\Tools\Android Doesn't work.

[cesarsicas]

It works, but Shouldn't Intelij generate this automatically ? tks !

[rommex]

This does not work for me. The file is present, but I still have the error

[Avi Cherry]

This is often a symptom of attempting to open a project that's not standalone and relies on a parent project. So while this answer is correct, in some circumstances it won't help because most Android projects are reliant on a parent gradle project to for essential configuration.

[Val]

This corrected the issue on both the mac High Serria and Windows 10. Great answer and efficient.

[soshial]

This is the only thing that helped me. Steps #3 and #4 are very important

[cabanni]

what kind of content should be in the settings.gradle file?

[user25]

yes it was in sample folder not in project root, thanks!

[Arhat Baid]

@cabanni settings.gradle just includes the module in your application. By default it'll be 'app' module. Hope it helps/

[Martijn]

I already had an ANDROID_SDK which points to the same dir, so for me it was ANDROID_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK

[macmuri]

This error is also related with OS language(!!!). If you are using a OS language other than english than try to convert your OS language to english, I am sure it will work. This is only for Windows.

[Michal Vician]

This helped. After "Re-import Gradle Project" was launched, the following 2 errors were printed to console which helped me to detect the problem: Invalid Gradle JDK configuration found, Project JDK is not specified. So everything started to work after I fixed the JDK path in Settings.

[Michal Vician]

After JDK path was fixed I also had to restart the IDE with "File > Invalidate Caches / Restart ..." option.

[Samuel Owino]

This gives me " Plugin with id 'com.android.application' not found."

[Joseph]

This seems to be a gradle issue, did you try this github.com/udacity/ud839_Miwok/issues/87

[MING WU]

just open the android folder by android studio, when android studio opens the 'android' folder, local.properties will be created automatically.

[Nauman Moazzam]

It is too late to comment, but i want to know how to do that in MacOS?

[Innocent]

i am working with open cv what should i do to add NDK?

[Erik Sillén]

Thanks a lot! Had everything else set up but this was missing. A bit weird that Android Studio doesn't give a more understandable error.

[Alexei Martianov]

It helped. Actually this solution is hinted in the error wording itself. I use IntelliJ on Mac and in project structure I have SDK correct path. Why still do I need that in local.properties then?

[Shuvo]

in MacOS you need to do same procedure just you need to find your Android SDK file path and paste it local.properties file...that's it

[grc]

After adding sdk.dir path and also to ~/.bashrc, nothing worked. But then I closed and opened again and it worked. Thanks!

[groo]

This worked for me using IntelliJ with Android support installed.

[Manish]

this answer is so underrated. I've come here twice now and it solved both the times. thanks a lot.

[Md Shahnawaz]

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[Shishir Shetty]

RESTART is the key.

[JSON derulo]

If anyone is trying to run one of the samples in the facebook-android-sdk, this tip helped me run it. Loading only one of the examples doesn't work.

[Anton Plebanovich]

I just went to File > Project Structure and it said that SDK location is incorrect and fixed it for me on MacOS

[Kimanthi K.]

This is the answer bro. Big Up maaan!

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[Lama]

in windows it should be with double slashes like this sdk.dir = C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk

[jave.web]

if you're using eas build (expo build has been deprecated), this is no longer working, and you have to define the env variable in eas.json, also the path to the android SDK may be different (I don't have it in my home directory)

[jave.web]

EAS builds: use eas.json under build => production (or other mode) make sure you have { "env": { "ANDROID_SDK_ROOT": "/your/path/to/androidSDK" }

[InsaneCat]

Working Solution :)