I ask this because, after updating my Android Studio, I found SDK has risen up in size, up to 52GBs while at the beginning it was about 101MBs. Why does it contains too large size?
Android SDK is a collection of libraries and Software Development tools. Whenever Google releases a new version or update of Android Software, a corresponding SDK is also released with it. In the updated or new version of SDK, some more features are included which are not present in the previous version. Its size depends on the components you install.
Major components:
Android SDK Tools,
Android SDK Build-Tools
Android Emulator
Android SDK Platform-tools
...
In Android Studio check what components you have installed.
To determine the Android Full SDK Download size check the following question:
How to determine Android Full SDK Download size?
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I have two Windows 10 machines with the latest Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.18) installed. But one of the machines has a different Android SDK Platform-Tools version in the Android SDK Manager:
One has 28.0.0 and the other one has 29.0.1. How can I get them on the same version?
Now I found a way to change the Android SDK Platform-Tools. You can download the versions from here:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r29.0.1-windows.zip
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r28.0.0-windows.zip
Then go to your Android SDK Location (for me it is C:\Users\some-user\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools) and put the files from the archive in this directory. Make a backup first - just in case.
Don't know why you can't do this in the Android SDK manager (Android SDKs and Tools Version 1.2.192 (d15-9/9312139)) itself and why he doesn't offer an upgrade after initial installation of Xamarin.
Where can I find information about all listed Android SDK Tools, what they mean and (maybe) how to use.
The best place to visit is Android Developers site.
Android SDK Tools is a component of the Android SDK. It includes the complete set of development and debugging tools for Android. It comes as a part of Android Studio. So if you install Android Studio, Android SDK tools will also get installed. You can also install it separately if you are using any other IDE like Eclipse for development.
Please refer the links below to get a better understanding of,
Android SDK Tools released so far.
Android SDK Platform Tools
Android SDK Build Tools
Android Support Library Packages
Android SDK Platform-Tools is a component for the Android SDK. It includes tools that interface with the Android platform, such as adb, fastboot, and systrace. These tools are required for Android app development. They're also needed if you want to unlock your device bootloader and flash it with a new system image.
Although some new features in these tools are available only for recent versions of Android, the tools are backward compatible, so you need only one version of the SDK Platform-Tools.
Check it:
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
I hope It helps!
I am new to Xamarin and Android development. I have installed VS 2017. I have installed Google APIs ARM under Android 7.1 API 25. But I am not able to create the emulator. It says "no cpu abi image available for this target". What I might be missing in it?
After googling further i came across a helpful link
The screenshots you have included appear to show the GUI interface for the Google AVD Manager included with Android SDK Tools <= 25.x. Google made the decision to remove the GUI interface for many of their tools in Android SDK Tools 26.
We have been working on creating our own GUI interfaces to replace the ones removed by Google in their SDK Tools. You'll notice that we have our own interface for the Android SDK Manager built right into Visual Studio for Mac. We are working on a similar solution for the AVD Manager.
Until we have published our own solution I would strongly recommend the following:
Update the Android SDK Tools to >= 26.X.
Remove any AVDs that you have already created with the old tooling (they will not work).
Create new AVDs using the avdmanager CLI tools included with v. 26 of the Android SDK Tools
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/124590/no-cpuabi-system-images-available-for-this-target.html
I've tried to install android SDK from official site. It include latest android SDK tools (version 25.3.1)
This package have utility android which is needed by my project (very big one); but this tool is no longer available:
The android command is no longer available.
For manual SDK and AVD management, please use Android Studio.
For command-line tools, use tools/bin/sdkmanager and tools/bin/avdmanager
According to changelog it was discontinued in version 25.3.0 so I tried to check sdkmanager for older versions but unfortunately it only contains single version of tools.
How do I get an old version of android SDK with working android tool?
The official site has only latest version. Other links no longer work.
UPD.
Appium also encountered this, they just fixed their tools to use the new setup.
Links described here still work:
http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.5-macosx.zip - Mac OS X
http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.5-windows.zip - Windows
http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.5-linux.zip - Linux
Though it seems that google doesn't want older versions of SDK to be used by all means so this link may not last long.
I try launch emulator in android studio 1.0, but sending a error message![enter image description here, my O.S. is Ubuntu 14.04 x64][1]
Try this,
If you want develop android application in android studio must you need this thinks,
Latest SDK tools
Latest Build tools,
Latest Platform tools,
Latest API (SDK platform,System image(Based on system like x86 or 64))
Latest Android support repository
Latest support library
Please check which system image your downloaded?
Option-1:
If you already download google API download you must need google api system image
Option-2
Uninstall Android studio freshly download and install as power user.