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Android Studio Not Including SDK

I'm trying to setup Android Studio on a new install of Mac OS X Yosemite. I downloaded the Android Studio Beta v0.8.14 from here: https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html and upon launching it complained about not having an SDK (although the download page indicates it should include the SDK). I tried searching after installing for the SDK and can't find it (a few other posts indicate /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk but that location doesn't exist). Where is the SDK installed and what is required to set it up?

Go to the SDK Manager and click Edit... next to the field for the location of the SDK. Then an "SDK Setup" window should display. There you can download the SDK.

Edit: This answer is deprecated as Android Studio seems to bundle everything since a while already.
Old answer
It seems the android-studio-bundle version is no longer available in the download page (instead there are only android-studio-ide). When you start Android Studio, it won't let you create a new projet until you configure the SDK location.
That means you have to download the SDK separately here, extract it somewhere, and configure it on Configure->Project Defaults->Project Structure. After that, the SDK Manager icon will be enabled and you can download the tools you want.

I had the same problem on Windows. After I re-installed it a few times, I found that the SDK was installed but hidden in C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk.

Information for Windows
For some reason, which I have no time to investigate, Android seems to provide, currently, the IDE and the SDK separately, while in the Dev Webpage says the opposite.
This is the "complete" (false!) tool I have just downloaded: android-studio-ide-171.4443003-windows.exe (SDK is missing here, note the "ide" in the file name).
And this is the real complete tool I had downloaded few months ago, from the same place...: android-studio-bundle-162.3871768-windows.exe
Note that this last one has the "bundle" in the file name.
Please, download the bundle (IDE+SDK) from here:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/install/2.3.1.0/android-studio-bundle-162.3871768-windows.exe?hl=ko
I want to suppose (¿?) that similar link you can find for Linux or macOS just Googling for it.
Hope this helps!

It worked like this for me
Downloaded the Android Studio
Install Android Studio
Open Android Studio after installation.
You will get a dialog box to import settings if you already have Intellij installed on your machine. Say "Do not Import". Otherwise continue to next step.
It will ask you in the dialog box to pre-configure such as theme, path etc.
Just click next next...and then Finish. You will see the SDK tool will start downloading.
After installation is finished. You can find it in this path: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

If you have ever installed Android Studio before and then removed it, it won't reinstall the SDK automatically (speculation: some Windows setting somewhere).
The solution is starting Android Studio and then
File -> Manage IDE Settings -> Restore Default Settings
This will wipe any custom settings you don't have at this point and trigger the SDK install

What Pablo wrote is misleading.
This is the "complete" (false!) tool I have just downloaded:
android-studio-ide-171.4443003-windows.exe (SDK is missing here, note
the "ide" in the file name).
Yes, it is IDE only, but after you install this IDE and first time run it, SDK will be downloaded automatically. So there is no need to download some outdated bundles. Just use default "green button" on https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html

I'm using Ubuntu, and had previously installed Android Studio. It was using too much space, so I deleted it. Now when I downloaded it and started ./studio.sh, it found my previous installation configuration directory and asked to import from there. I did, and then this problem occurred.
I put the directory .Android Studio 3.3 in the trash and restarted ./studio.sh, and it imported the SDK automatically for me. That was good, because I couldn't find it where it was supposed to be according to the dialog box. The 3.3 above is from the version of Android Studio I was installing.

in my case, my country is forbidden from google, and my PC's time zone was set by my counrty.
after I change my timezone to another country my problem solved and android studio download SDK and nkd easily

Re-install studio. If ANDROID_HOME is set to custom location then it will install sdk there else it will install SDK in C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

Note:this is a temporary fix
If you have Eclipse then you can use that SDK for emulation.
Just run the sdk manager and emulate a version of android. Then while you are asking for emulating something ie while running code it will show your emulator as online and you can even use it.
Hope this helps you.
All the Best...

Android Studio SDK location

I see there a lot of similar topics pertaining to this issue but I did not find a solution for me among those posts. I just installed Android Studio v0.8.14 and it won't let me create a new project because I do not have an SDK path specified. For the life of me I cannot find where that path should be. I see many people have it located in C:/Android or someplace similar, however the only Android files I have are on my desktop in the extracted folder that came in the .zip. All paths inside that folder do not qualify as an appropriate SDK location, according to Android Studio. Am I being completely ridiculous and missing the obvious?

For Mac/OSX the default location is /Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk.

Android Studio on Windows 8:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager\intelhaxm-android.exe
(in username : please enter valid username)
Install it and restart your Android Studio.
The above steps are similar for win 7 and also same for eclipse.
Update: Windows 10 (similar steps) - pointed out by RBT

This is the sdk path Android Studio installed for me:
"C:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\android\sdk"
I'm running windows 8.1.
You can find the path going into Android Studio -> Configure -> SDK Manager -> On the top left it should say SDK Path.
I don't think it's necessary to install the sdk separately, as the default option for Android Studio is to install the latest sdk too.

I had forgot where the sdk location was installed to so what I did was open Android Studio and selected Settings then used the following submenu
Current 1/1/2017:Tools -> SDK Manager
outdate: Appearance & Behavior -> System Settings -> Android SDK
There the sdk location was listed as Android SDK Location

Download the SDK from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ to C:\android-sdk\.
Then when you launch Android Studio again, it will prompt you for the SDK path just point it to: C:\android-sdk\.
Update: new download location, https://developer.android.com/studio/#command-tools

Linux (Ubuntu 18.4)
/home/<USER_NAME>/Android/Sdk
windows (8.1)
C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk
(AppData folder is hidden, check folder properties first)
macOS (Sierra 10.12.6)
/Users/<USER_NAME>/Library/Android/sdk

macOS (Catalina or Mojave or Sierra):
After installing Android Studio (3.6+ or 2.3.x),
by default
sdk path: "/Users/< username >/Library/Android/sdk"
Remember:
may be
Library folder is hidden.
To make it visible:- Hit Command+shift+. OR
Open Terminal and type "chflags nohidden ~/Library/" then hit return.
windows:
After installing Android Studio,
by default
sdk path: "C:\Users< username >\AppData\Local\Android\sdk"
Remember:
by default
AppData folder is hidden, make it visible first.

Start Android Studio and select Configure --> SDK Manager
Then, check the path of Android SDK
If you can't find the SDK location, you may want to download it. Just scroll down to near end of the download page and select the Android SDK with respect to your OS.

C:\Users\Max\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\
The location I found it in for Windows 8.1. I think the default SDK folder. AppData is a hidden folder, so you will not locate it unless you type it in once you get into your C:\Users\ folder.

For Mac users running:
Open Android Studio
Select Android Studio -> Preferences -> System Settings -> Android
SDK
Your SDK location will be specified on the upper right side of the
screen under [Android SDK Location]
I'm running Android Studio 2.2.3

When i upgraded i just moved my SDK to my user folder C:\Users\Nick\Android-SDK and updated my path in Android Studio. Worked like a charm.
EDIT: (More detail) - My SDK was originally inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk, I just Cut and Paste the entire \sdk folder into C:\Users\Nick\Android-SDK, then set it inside Android Studio to the new location.

For Ubuntu users running:
Open Android Studio
Select Android Studio -> Settings -> Android SDK or
Android Studio -> Project structure -> SDK location or to open Project structure shortcut is (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+s)
Your SDK location will be specified on the upper right side of the screen under [Android SDK Location]

If your project is open click on Gradle Scripts >local.properties(SDK LOCATION), open it and there is the location of sdk with name
sdk.dir=C\:\\Users\\shiva\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk
Note don't forget the replace \\ to \ before coping the things(sdk location)

Default path in Windows
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\

Linux 2021, after installed follow these steps!

Open the Preferences window by clicking File > Settings (on Mac, Android Studio > Preferences).
In the left panel, click Appearance & Behavior > Android SDK.
You will see the path

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk
This is the right path, if you looking up for sdkmanager.

Android SDK is in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

(MAC Users) To find sdk Location in Android Arctic Fox:
File >> Project Structure>> SDK Location.

Consider Using windows 7 64bits
C:\Users\Administrador\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

Windows 10 - when upgrading from AS 2.x to 3.01
AS has the SDK directory name changed from .../sdk to .../Sdk
Because I kept my original settings this caused an issue.
Changed back to lowercase and all working!

AndroidStudioFrontScreenI simply double clicked the Android dmg install file that I saved on the hard drive and when the initial screen came up I dragged the icon for Android Studio into the Applications folder, now I know where it is!!! Also when you run it, be sure to right click the Android Studio while on the Dock and select "Options" -> "Keep on Dock". Everything else works.

create a new folder in your android studio parent directory folder. Name it sdk or whatever you want.
Select that folder from the drop down list when asked.
Thats what solves it for me.

I tried the accepted solution but it didn't resolve the issue for me.
I had already installed Android Studio 2-3 years ago, but I uninstalled it at some point. Installing the latest version was giving me an error. I did multiple uninstalls/reinstallations, but the issue persisted.
I found an SDK was available on my machine in %LocalAppData%. I opened the environment variable and deleted all the references of Android like Android Home /Path. I performed the uninstallation of Android Studio and then reinstalled.
This time it worked and installed properly; it is even downloading the other SDK-related files.

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I found this a couple of minutes back.
What renders the location unuseful is the fact that it is neither empty nor has the sdk.
One of the conditions needs to be met for the folder.
So, try this:
On Windows, go to Control Panel and search for 'show hidden folders and files'.
You will find a "Folders" option. On the submenu, you will see "Show hidden files and
folders".
[The options look like this.][1]
Refer this image.
[Click the option shown in the picture][2]
Click apply and ok.
Go to the location i.e. some location in appdata, or the location your android sdk was
about to be installed in. The location should be visible now.
Go to it and delete everything inside. (Don't delete the sdk folder, just the contents
inside it )
Go to android sdk manager and select the same location again. The error should vanish.
Happy installation!
In other words, this error only pops up if you had a previous failed installation.
If you're unable to do it still, hit me up at twitter #Vishma Pratim Das and I will be happy to assist you.
Thanks.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6P8S.png
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/PeRUZ.png

I just installed Android Studio and has the same problem.
Banged my head for a few hours and found the solution - it's retarded.
So I installed Android Studio but when it asked me for the config folder, I provided the one from my IntelliJ. Well, turns out that stop the Android Studio setup and I had no SDK. Going to their site the SDK is nowhere to be found. It's not on any of the links from the other answers either.
My solution was to use a different folder for Android Studio. That ran the setup wizard and downloaded the SDK.

Sharing what worked for me in hopes that it helps someone else.
My issue was that my SDK was not installed together with the Android Studio IDE for some reason. How I managed to trigger the SDK installation was by going to File > Settings on Android Studio, then typing "sdk" in the searchbar. If your android sdk location is empty, click on "edit" right next to it and it should immediately prompt installation for your sdk.
Cheers!

For Linux, do not move/put android sdk under /usr/lib/ directory because it will only have read permissions and other libraries cannot be downloaded.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager\intelhaxm-android.exe
check this location in windows

Android-studio Selected directory is not valid home for Android SDK

I installed android studio but while selecting android SDK I am getting following error. I tried solution which is on this post but no luck. How can I solve this?

I had this problem, select SDK folder (NOT SDK->sources or SDK-platforms)

I resolved with the instructions here,
http://www.blog.teamguru.in/2018/04/06/selected-directory-is-not-a-valid-home-for-sdk/
Just close current error window and let run the android studio
Open the SDK manager as shown below
Click on Edit SDK location as shown below
Simply press next button if there is correct location for SDK you want to install there
Let it be downloaded
Install platform and SDK tools and
Enjoy

Try restarting the application. Close all related studio processes, then right click "run as administrator".
You should be fine after this.

I got the same issue. You must enable the Android Support Plugin
Configuration > Plugin > Android Support Plugin. Check it.

Close error window
Go to gradle tab
select "Gradle settings", wrench icon
Search for SDK setup
Select appropriate sdk for your device.
Next, two times
Wait for install
There is all..

None of the other answers work. After the installation, immediately close Android Studio, then start it as administrator. A message might popup asking for the sdk manager location. Ignore it (Close the popup). Go to Tools > SDK Manager and click on the edit button on the right of Android SDK Location. Then click Next, next and you're good to go. Android Studio will let you install the sdk manager.

I had the same problem but what I found is that it requires the parent folder of the following things AVD manager,SDK manager,tools,platform-tools,build-tools etc.So what you need is to find the parent directory of these things, which you might find with a name such as android-sdk or android-sdk-windows(in case you are using windows OS).Make sure the above said contents are in that folder and select it.I hope you will find this useful.

Download the SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Start SDK manager and make everything up to date
Also, make sure you have set the language level to
7.0 Diamonds, ARM, Multi-catch, etc

I had this problem on Linux. Apparently you need write access to some place in that directory, so I just took ownership of the entire thing:
sudo chown -R thomas:thomas /opt/android-sdk
Could be that something similar is going on on Windows as well.

If like me, a MacOs user which has installed Android Studio on my Mac and if you've tried everything you can think of but was still unable to set the Android SDK directory in Android Studio, follow the next steps (I know the site where I got the bundle is a freeware site but the package is the right one):
1. Download adt-bundle-mac (Android Developer Tools) from [here][1].
2. Unzip the file and browse into the unzipped folder.
3. Copy only the sdk dir to /Users/username/Library/Android
4. Open Android Studio, the error about the SDK folder which is not set will pop up, set the path to the SDK to "/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk".
5. Now Android Studio will accept the path and you're good to go.
I wasted about 2 hours until I fixed it so I hope that by writing this answer I'll save you some 2 hours.

The sdk folder contains the platform-tools folder.
I copied this folder and named it platforms, then it worked for me.

Just delete(preferably permanently) all the android directories in whatever location they are present(e.g. C:\Program Files\Android, C:\users\respective user\respective android folders). Remove the installer as well(if possible). Make sure to save all your Android Studio files in some external storage (preferably).
The main thing is to get Android studio with SDK.
Now go to the android studio website and install android studio leaving all settings default. There you will also get to install the SDK and it's linking.
It will take some time to load and will load nearly 1.5 GB files.
This worked for my case.

In my case I wasn't giving him admin permission

Steps to follow:
Close Android Studio.
Restart Android Studio and Give the path of Empty Folder .
Install Sdk in that folder(Sdk will automatically install and will get configure automatically.)

With Android Studio 4.1.2 the easiest thing is to close the project (file / close project). That's how you get to the wizard that automatically sets up the SDK for you.
The default location that it suggests is /Users/stan/Library/Android/sdk (exactly the same that I was trying to set up manually but AS kept saying it's invalid)

Android Studio - Android SDK out of date

I am getting an "SDK is out of date" error. I've seen a few other posts mention something about editing a path variable but I'm not really sure what this means. If someone could explain what I need to do to get past this error I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

You need to update your default project settings. Go to File > Other Settings > Default Project Structure. Change the Project SDK setting to Android SDK. This should clear the error for all new projects.

Run ANDROID_SDK_DIR/tools/android and update Android SDK tools to version 22, Platform and Build tools to version 17.

Under Unix (Linux/MacOS X), this seems like permission problem. Someone who packed Android Studio, has the original files under non-root account. If you unpack it as root, the files and dirs has no permission for "other" (just for owner). The person who is packing Android Studio knows a lot about Android and Java, but not much about Unix permissions (uch!). There are two possible solutions:
a) unpack android-studio-bundle-...-linux.tgz as normal user, not as root (this has an advantage - you will be able to update Andriod Studio by clicking menu; but this is generally stupid because you are open to malware attack)
b) fix read permissions for files and dirs for whole android-studio directory with something like: chmod -R 755 /opt/android-studio (not ideal because all files has "x" then, but it works)

installing android offline is hard[obsolete]

i am a student in africa and in our land, there actually exist slow and expensive internet connections, which is why we tremble in fear whenever we hear the word "online repository" method of installing software. Damn, that usually means you have to look elsewhere.
The problem.(i cant install android without connecting eclipse to the internet)
It is possible to manually download individual components as .zip files but there is no way of installing them into android eg i have managed to download
platform-tools_r03-windowsandroid-sdk_r10-windowsetcbut no matter what i do, i can't get android to recognise them as components. It seems tens of thousands of other developers have a similar problem (see below)
This qn has 10k views(meaning 10k people had a similar problem)
another lost developer
webpage sudgesting solution that failed to work on windows seven ultimate
If someone has actually ever installed android without connecting eclipse to the internet, please let us know the magic you used. Thanks in advance :)
EDIT:
if someone out there is still interested check out http://qdevarena.blogspot.com/2010/05/download-android-sdk-standalone-for.html
and make sure your folder structure is as shown in http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html

For SDK and platform tools you can just extract the zip content, Eclipse has nothing to do here.
For Eclipse ADT plugin:
Download the zip file from http://dl.google.com/android/ADT-10.0.1.zip
Help -> Install New Software -> Add
Select Archive and then provide the location of the zip file
These steps are clearly explained in Eclipse ADT documentation.

Only in Windows
Install (if not installed) Oracle JDK jdk-7-windows-i586.exe
install Eclipse SDK
Add to the PATH environment variable the path to the JDK (for example c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin)
Edit the file hosts (c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts), add the entry "127.0.0.1 dl-ssl.google.com"
It's important! Port 80 must be free at the time of installation Android SDK
Run the Abyss Web Server X1 (abyssws.exe). Works best if you download a fresh copy
Run the Android SDK "SDK Manager.exe" installer
In the "Android SDK Mannager" in the menu "Tools" >> "Options" put the check ("force https:// ... sources to be fetched using http:// ...")
Android SDK Manager will fetch packages in your computer. Choose the packages for API you want to program against, select and install packages
After installation the file hosts (c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) entry "127.0.0.1 dl-ssl.google.com" you entered in step 3
Good Luck!! and remember to update to lastest APIs and revision
You can download Eclipse ADT and install
IN Eclipse: Click Help tab and Install New Software tab
Click add button
In Add Repository Window, add in Name Field Eclipse ADT and Location field click archive to browse in local machine where you downloaded ADT
Press Ok and tick all, Eclipse will install the less

The answer by dtmilano is not valid for the current version of android SDK. (androdi 4.2.2)
The android website says that after the unzipping of the ADT:
Your Eclipse IDE is now set up to develop Android apps, but you need to add the latest SDK platform tools and an Android platform to your environment. To get these packages for your SDK, continue to Adding Platforms and Packages.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html
Instead, try
http://qdevarena.blogspot.in/2010/05/download-android-sdk-standalone-for.html
as mentioned by
Installing android SDK in eclipse offline

I'M a Ghanaian..I did it about a week ago on ubuntu it might work on windows
your question indicates that you have eclipse installed..so i will just move on to setting it up to run android apps ...
step 1: go to developer.android.com to download the sdk for windows(i recomend you download the one with the installer).
step 2: launch ur favourite browser and open this site.
you will see an xml page using ctr+f (any shortcut for finding a text on your browser) type andoroid 2.2 or any android version you like latest is kitkat 4.4...you will find ur prefered android version in zip file for ur OS i.e windows...just copy the text and append it to this address.
this will download the the platform for you in .zip format....just navigate to where you extracted ur sdk and go to platform folder and then create a new folder with any name and then extract the platfor you downloaded earlier i.e android version into the new folder you created...just launch the sdk.exe and it will auto detect your platform for you...
just go and creae your Android virtual device and start running your apps..