Setting environment variable android studio

How To Set Android SDK Path In Windows And Mac

After you installed android studio, you still need to configure some android SDK environment variables then you can use it easily. This article will tell you how to correctly configure Android SDK environment variables such as ANDROID_HOME, PATH on Windows and macOS.

1. Configure Android SDK Variable In Windows.

1.1 Get Android SDK Install Directory Path.

Before you can configure it, you should first get the android SDK install directory follow below steps.

1. Open android studio, click File —> Settings menu item in the top men bar.
2. Expand Appearance & Behavior —>System Settings —>Android SDK menu item on the left side of the popup window. Then you can find the Android SDK Location directory path on the right side ( in this example, the Android SDK location path is C:\Users\Jerry\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk ), remember it.

1.2 Set %ANDROID_HOME% and %Path% System Environment Variable.

1. Right-click the computer icon in Windows file explorer left side, click Properties menu item in the popup menu list. This will open the windows system configuration window.
2. Click the Advanced system settings link on left panel, it will popup the System Properties window, click the Environment Variables button to open Environment Variables window.
3. Click the New… button to add a new system variable, input ANDROID_HOME as the variable name, and input the Android SDK location directory path ( such as C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk ) as the variable value.
4. Select variable Path and click Edit button and add ;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools\bin;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools at the end of its value. Please note the ; must be English character otherwise it will not take effect .
5. Click OK to close the system environment variables settings window, open a dos window, type command adb in it. If you see output like below that means the android SDK path variable has been configured successfully.

2. Configure Android SDK Variable In macOS.

1. Open Android Studio on macOS, then click Android Studio —> Preferences menu item at the left top toolbar.
2. Input search keyword sdk in the search box of the popup Preferences dialog window left side.
3. It will focus on the Android SDK menu item on the left side, and you can get the Android SDK Location directory path value on the right side Android SDK Location text box.
4. Generally, the Android SDK is installed in the /Users/user-name/Library/Android/sdk folder on macOS.
5. If you can not find the above folder in macOS finder or terminal, this is because the Library folder is a hidden folder by default, you should make the hidden folder visible by executing the command $ defaults write com. apple . finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE in a macOS terminal window ( please read article How To Show Hidden Files In Mac OS Finder And Select Hidden Files In Html Upload File Form ).
6. You can also see the hidden Library folder by opening a macOS Finder window, then click Go —> Go to Folder… menu item, and input

/Library in the popup dialog input text box, then click Go button.

This is also another method to show the hidden Library folder, open a macOS Finder window, click Go —> Home menu item. Right-click the home folder, then click the Show View Options menu item in the popup menu list. Check the Show Library Folder checkbox.

Use nano to create or edit user bash profile in user home directory.

Add ANDROID_HOME and PATH environment variable in user bash profile.

Make the added system environment take effect.

Now open a terminal and run adb, you should also see something output like in windows.

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Setup Android Environment Variables

This article will provide you with a detailed guide to setup Android Environment variables. This article is a continuation of our previous articles on Android, where you learned how to download and install Android Studio bundle and then how to install additional Android SDK tools.

The main Android environment variables that you would have to set are ANDROID_HOME and Path variables. If you have followed our Appium Tutorial series from the beginning, then you would remember that this article is similar to our previous article where we setup Java environment variables. Let’s now start with the setup process.

Find the folder location where you installed Android SDK

In the first step we will try to find the folder path where we have installed Android SDK –

1. The default folder location where Android SDK is installed is – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk. Please open this folder path and see if you have Android SDK folder in there with contents as shown below

Please note that if you try to open this folder location by going to each folder one by one (i.e. C > Users > YourUserName and so on… ), then you might not see the AppData folder as its a hidden folder. So, you will have to make hidden folders visible first

2. Copy the SDK folder location once you find it. For us, this folder location is – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

Setup Android Environment Variables – Setup ANDROID_HOME

Follow the steps given below to setup ANDROID_HOME environment variable –

1. Click on Start menu. Then right click on Computer and select Properties option

2. This would open the System Properties window as shown below. Now from the Advanced Tab, click on Environment Variables button

3. From the Environment Variables window, click on New button from System variables section

4. Enter ANDROID_HOME in Variable Name field and SDK folder location (C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk) in Variable value field as shown in below image (Please enter the correct folder location that you have in your machine)

5. Click on OK button. ANDROID_HOME variable will now be added to System variables

With this, we have successfully added ANDROID_HOME variable. Let us now see how to add the Path variable.

Folder locations to be added to Path variable

In Android SDK folder, there are three specific folders that you need to add to the Path variable. These folders are –

• platforms-tools folder which has path – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools
• tools folder which has path – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools
• bin folder inside tools folder with path – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin

Since we have already added ANDROID_HOME in System variables and its represented by – C:\Users\Anish\AppData\Local\Android\sdk, hence all these above three folder locations can be written as –

• %ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools
• %ANDROID_HOME%\tools
• %ANDROID_HOME%\tools\bin

Let us now add all these three folder locations in Path variable.

Setup Path Variable

Follow the steps given below to setup Path variable –

1. In the Environment variables window, check that there is a variable called Path under System variables

2. Select the Path variable and click on Edit button. Path variable window would be opened

3. Move over to the end in the Variable value text field. Put a semicolon (;) at the end and start adding all the 3 folder paths separated by semicolon (Semicolon acts as a delimiter between different folder locations added in the Path variable). You should have added all the 3 folder locations as this – ;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools\bin

4. Click on OK button. All the three variables would now be added to the Path variables.

5. Close the Environment variable window by clicking on Ok button. With this, we have now successfully setup Path variable as well

Verify that Android Environment Variables have been set correctly

To verify that all the Android Environment Variables are correctly setup, open command prompt and run this command: sdkmanager – -list (please note that there should be no space between the 2 hyphens, as shown in the below image). This would list down all the installed and available packages which would look a bit like something as shown below (please wait for 3-5 seconds for the list to be displayed)

You can also run this command: uiautomatorviewer in command prompt. This will open UI Automator Viewer window as displayed below.

You can now close UI Automator Window and the command prompt. Both the above commands verify that the Android Environment Variables have been setup correctly. If you face any issues with any of the steps, or if you get any different output using these commands, then please let us know using the comments section. With this we complete our article series on installing Android and setting up Android environment variables. We will now move over to our next article, which is downloading and installing Appium Desktop client.

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Set ANDROID_HOME and Path Environment Variables For SDK In Windows

Set ANDROID_HOME windows Variable

• Open » Environment Variables» dialog from win start menu -> Right click on My Computer -> Select properties -> Advanced system settings -> Environment Variables button from Advanced tab. You can view detailed steps to open Environment Variables dialog in THIS POST.
• Click on New button under User Variable table. It will open New User Variable dialog.
• Set Variable Name = ANDROID_HOME and Variable value = E:\SDK (Path of SDK folder). Path can be different for you as per your SDK folder location as described in previous post.
• Click on OK button to close New User Variable dialog as shown in bellow image.

That means android is configured properly in your system.

Now android_home environment variable windows and Path Environment Variables are set for android SDK in windows environment. So android environment is configured and ready to use with appium to execute software automation tests. Next post will describe you how to integrate SDK with eclipse using Eclipse ADT Plugin to use android SDK with eclipse.

21 comments:

Thanks for the post its really help full for initial android user

Thank you for your help but i have an issue that is i do not find the sdk path in my computer. I want this setup for an ionic app create android platform and generate apk file. I also installed in my computer android studio.

Please help me to find the sdk path. I’m getting the error ANDROID_HOME veriable not setup, setup it manually.

u have to add JAVA_HOME variable also along with ANDROID_HOME to have proper functionality.

u have to add JAVA_HOME variable also along with ANDROID_HOME to have proper functionality.

I’m getting ANDROID_HOME variable not setup setup it manually to generate a apk from a ionic framework project. i did not find the sdk path in my computer but i also installed android studio in my computer. Please help me.

You are developing project means you are developer and asking for help regarding deploy from a testing background funny.

I am answering late but hope someone will find it useful :
If you have already installed android studio then you will find your sdk in user appdata hidden folder.

thanks for the help!

‘android’ is not recognised as internal or external command,operable program or batch file- message is displayed in command prompt. I had set the path correctly, But don’t know what is the problem can you please help me with it??

maybe you have spaces in your path, for example if your sdk in Program files folder.
you should set the correct path, use such scheme:
Progra

1 = ‘Program Files’
Progra

2 = ‘Program Files(x86)’
it is for windows x64

maybe you have some spaces in your path, for example your sdk is located in «Program files».
use such scheme:
Progra

1 = ‘Program Files’
Progra

2 = ‘Program Files(x86)’
it’s for windows x64

I have also faced the same error. But once after providing ‘SDK path’ in the System variables ‘Path’. The error is cleared

thanks for help

By far the most helpful page I have found about setting up all the variables and paths for android 🙂

I run the command prompt I got the sdk manager, but I also got «this system cannot find the specified path», let me know what I have to do solve this issue

The «android» command is depercated
For manual sdk, avd, and project management, please use android studio.
For command-line tools, use tools\bin\sdk manager.bat
And tools\bin\avdmanager.bat

Same issue, What is the solution for this ?

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