I am going nuts.I update to the Android SDK in Eclipse, Eclipse can't find the SDK. There is a text not that saids the the file has been moved to /platform-tools, however the file ADB.exe is nowhere to be found in any of my folders. The SDK Manager works find but for some reason Eclipse will not find the file its looking for. I have looked everywhere for the answer. It work find for about 4 months until I upgraded. I also now using a real device a Droid X2. But I don't believe this is the issue. I can't find the ADB.exe file. Help been working on this for about 2 days
adb.exe was relocated from {ANDROID_SDK_FOLDER}/tools to {ANDROID_SDK_FOLDER}/platform-tools: find your SDK folder and look inside it for the platform-tools folder.
EDIT: in Eclipse, if you open the Preferences dialog (Window->Preferences) and select the Android option on the left it will show you what Eclipse THINKS is your Android SDK folder. If you moved the SDK folder you should update the path to match the new location of the SDK folder, and then (a restart might be necessary) Eclipse should work fine with the Android tools.
EDIT: well, I can't tell if your ADT isn't properly installed or if the SDK location is broken, so lets try and brute force set the SDK location. Create a text file on your desktop called "adt.pref", and then place only this line in it:
/instance/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.sdk=C\:\\Program Files\\Android\\android-sdk
then in Eclipse select File->Import then select General->Preferences and then pick that file. This should force the ADT location to match what that is. Restart Eclipse and see if that improves things.
I had the same problem and solved it by running the android sdk-manager (you can do that without running eclipse, using the start menu shortcut) and installing the Android SDK Platform-Tools through it (select the square and click install packages...).
Download the SDK here.
Once that's done, I would just follow the Google installation instructions again from the beginning. Perhaps you're missing something fairly simple?
Installation instructions.
I got the same problem. In my case it was caused by an upgrade on the Java JDK. I was using 1.6 and upgraded to 1.7.
Just manually add the new JDK to Eclipse.
Right click on your project JRE System Library. Select installed JRE, and then find it on your computer.
I had the same problem, and when I looked inside the platform-tools folder, it was empty.
After searching for downloading the contect of this folder, I found the below link.
http://venomvendor.blogspot.com/2012/06/android-adt-20-updated-download-offline.html
But it also could not help me.
At last I found that it's related to my internet connection.
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Today, I clicked some update when I launch Android Stodio. I forgot what it is. Then, I run some code when there is a error
"8:34 PM IllegalArgumentException: Unable to locate adb"
Then, I google for few hours and still cannot solve my problem. And I found that there is no "adb.exe" under my platform-tools folder.
Can someone help?
my os is Window 10.
I have tried uninstall Android Studio and install it back. It doesn't help.
Edit 1: After I re-install the platform-tools, I get back the adb.exe.But, I run my program again, it does the "ADB initialization", my adb.exe file lose again.
I am writing the solution which worked for me:
go to SDK Platform Tools;
download SDK Platform-Tools for Windows;
extract zip file and copy to \AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools.
Had the same problem. Solution was that Avast deleted the adb.exe.
Try adding the SDK folder to your antivirus whitelist.
What worked for me (after having AS 2.x and AS 3.x installed and trying to get Canary 3.1 to work):
Sometimes during an update/trying to sideload a new version of Android Studio, the updater/patcher screws up. It might delete adb after saying it will stop and update it, it might be fastboot or aapt ... whatever.
What works for me is to delete the whole sdk/platform-tools folder, restart AS and get it to redownload the entire platform tools package.
Then start AS again and go to File->Invalidate caches/restart.
If you have been updating Java, you might also want to ensure your JAVA_HOME is correct and that your AS project has been set to the correct JDK (project settings).
Yep, looks like LOTS of folks (way too many, shame on you, Google) have come up with a missing 'adb.exe' symptom. (In my case, I claim that it never got installed at all, during my Windows-10 bundled installation of Android Studio,
version 3.1.2.)
Ok, here's my recommended solution (which I borrowed and modified slightly from
this question): Android Studio SDK installer hangs indefinitely at Unzipping 'platform-tools/systrace/NOTICE'
The second(?) answer is essentially correct..."Dx Arout" boldly and correctly recommends:
(1) Delete platform-tools from this location C:\Users\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
and he/she's got the right idea, to then launch Android Studio and try to get it to complain and offer to fix the problem for you...says to:
(2) Then restart Android Studio. After gradle build finish it will ask for installation of missing tools. just click there. It should work fine.
Well, no, not quite. It didn't ask me anything, because I didn't get any
errors from current proj's build. So, I had to 'kick-it-in-the-*ss', by
launching Tools -> SDK Manager, choosing the middle tab ('SDK Tools'), and going to an already-installed entry named 'Android SDK Build-Tools 28-rc2' (your exact version entry may be somewhat different). So, click on its checkbox, choose 'Show package details' checkbox (down in lower-right corner). I lit up ALL the package variants, and forced it to install them all. That may have been overkill, but voila...once that completed, 'adb' DID get installed, as confirmed
when I launched a debug run. (Down in the 'logcat' tab's log-message window, the two RED headings, finally turned to black and debugging was finally USEABLE!
Cheers...
it's easy just go to your sdk location
like C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
there was to folder namely
platform-tools and platform-tools.backup.
open platfrm-tools.backup and copy the adb.exe and paste it to plaform-tools folder and now open the android studio again.studio will run smoothly and without any error
Thank you
I also faced the issue.
The avast antivirus had moved the file adb.exe to the virus chest and that was the cause of the issue. I have resolved it by restoring the adb.exe from the virus chest of avast.
Re-installing Android SDK Platform-Tools worked for me.
Go to: Android Studio >> Tools >> SDK Manager >> Appearance & Behavior >>
System Settings >> Android SDK >> SDK Tools
Uncheck Android SDK Platform-Tools >> apply
Check Android SDK Platform-Tools >> apply
The problem is solved. The issue I have is I upgraded the SDK platform-tools to 25.0.6. But My SDK Build-Tools is 25.0.3. (25.0.6 is not yet provided) I guess the version did not match which cause this problem.
I downgrade my SDK platform-tools to 25.0.3 and it is working as usual.
adb.exe won't appear if antivirus is installed and we need to whitelist this.
Anti virus block this because as it find .exe file so it will block it.
system deleted that file from platform tools u just make another copy of platform tools and whenever your system deleted your " adb.exe ". you can copy it to sdk/ platform .
this is a temporary solution i installed Quick Heal but its doesn't solve my problem
adb.exe is virus file for that its detected as malware
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Solution 2 :
** Copy your SDK FOLDER in System folder where antivirus dont take action on it .
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Solution 3:
1.Download new copy of Platform Tools
2.paste it into SDK
3.right click on adb.exe and go to security tab
4.disable access of deleting by user system USERGROUP
Solution 4
copy sdk in appdata/local it will solve your problem permanent .
Thank You
no adb found. I had to delete the virtual device from AVD manager create another. now virtual device connected succesfully
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...
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)
I am doing Android Development using Eclipse. I have downloaded all the required software, but I am having the same problem as discussed in "Unable to set up Android Target in Eclipse". Now I do not find the solution of the problem on that discussion so let me rewrite the problem again,
When I load Eclipse and create a new Android project, it keeps on waiting for the ADT to load. To figure out what is wrong I went to preferences and tried to put the location of the ADT I created in it but it keeps giving me this error when I put the address of ADT,
Could not find folder 'tools' inside SDK 'E:\Documents and
Settings\me\android-sdks'..
How can this issue be resolved?
I created the folder tools manually, now I am getting this error:
[2011-12-24 15:23:56 - DDMS] DDMS files not found: E:\Documents and Settings\me\android-sdks\platform-tools\adb.exe E:\Documents and Settings\me\android-sdks\tools\hprof-conv.exe E:\Documents and Settings\me\android-sdks\tools\traceview.bat
[2011-12-24 15:42:06 - DDMS] DDMS files not found: E:\Documents and Settings\me\.android\platform-tools\adb.exe E:\Documents and Settings\me\.android\tools\hprof-conv.exe E:\Documents and Settings\me\.android\tools\traceview.bat
If you install Eclipse properly then:
Start Eclipse
From the menu bar, select Window > Preferences > Android
For Android location, browse the folder in which you install Android SDKs.
In Android SDKs folder, rename the folder platforms-tools to tools.
Select the folder Android SDKs through Preferences dialog box.
If I get you correctly you have just downloaded Android sdk and want to configure it working with Eclipse. I think you miss one step from the installation of the sdk:
1) you download it
2) you extract it somewhere
3) then go to the specified directory and start AndroidManager (or was it just android??). There you specify you need platform-tools and the manager will configure that for you. This will also provide you with the 'adb' executable which is crucial for the Android developement.
After that you install ADT (which I think you already did) and from Eclipse preferences -> Android options you get a place to specify where your android-sdk is. If you specify it after you did the 'step 3' you should be good to go.
I am not 100% sure I got it correctly and what your state is, so please forgive me if my comment is irrelevant. If I am wrong I will be happy to help if you provide some more details.
Something I am completely sure is that you shouldn't need to create the folder 'tools' by yourself.
PS: The description I gave is for newer versions of android sdk, but if you are encountering a problem with older version I will recommend you to start from scratch with newer version. It shouldn't take you that long time.
This can also happen due to the bad unzipping process of SDK.It Happend to me.
Dont use inbuilt windows unzip process.
use WINRAR software for unzipping sdk
By default it looks for the SDK tools in "C:\Documents and Settings\user\android-sdks". Some times we install it at another location. So you just have to select the correct path and it will done.
I faced similar issue when the SDK tools installation was failed during the initial setup. To resolution is to download SDK tools from Android Developer Site
Expand "USE AN EXISTING IDE" section and download standalone SDK tools
Choose your destination as (%HOMEPATH%\android-sdks)
Now start Android-SDKs folder and run SDK manager
If you get the "Failed to find DDMS files..." do this:
Open eclipse
Open install new software
Click "Add..." -> type in (e.g.) "Android_over_HTTP" and in address put "http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/".
Don't be alarmed that its not https, this helps to fetch stuff over http. This trick helped me to resolve the issue on MAC, I believe that this also should work on Windows / Linux
Hope this helps !
In my case i was using Ubuntu. Where the was two directories one was /android-sdks
and /android-sdk-linux. I used the second one it works for me :)
My solution was to remove the Eclipse ADT plugin via menu "Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installation Details". Eclipse will restart.
Next go to Menu "Help > Install New Software", then add the ADT plugin url "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse" (or select the existing link from the dropdown).
This will re-install the latest ADT, including the DDMS files.
For me it was a simple case of specifying the path to the 'sdk' subfolder rather than the top level folder.
In my case I needed to input
/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk
instead of
/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321
I'm using Windows 7 and installed the 64 bit version of Eclipse 3.5.2. I then installed the Android ADT plugin, but when I try to configure it in the Windows > Preferences dialog, the Android Plugin doesn't show up in the left pane. Instead I see DDMS. This prevents me from specifying the location of the Android SDK (unless there is another way) to give me the appropriate templates and such.
Someone posted a fix to this that includes setting the permissions of Eclipse, but that didn't work for me. I tried installing the Android Plugin from both online installation (thru the URL install) and the offline Archive method.
If you're running Windows Vista or 7, make sure you right-click Eclipse and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. I literally spent six hours figuring this out, and this was what fixed it.
Dear people from the future:
I had roughly the same problem in linux, except that i didn't see anything at all but vanilla eclipse after installing. by combining both previous answers i got it to work:
start eclipse with sudo eclipse -clean, install the plugins and restart eclipse. the plugins showed up including the welcome screen that's supposed to be there.
after that it should work when running as regular user as well.
works for both the android sdk and the gwt sdk. (and probably other eclipse plugins)
Remove the plugin, then restart as follows:
eclipse -clean
Now try reinstalling the ADT from the online installation
For users having similar problem and not luck with other solutions:
I have windows XP but had same problem. I realized that I had JDK5/bin folder in my PATH environment variable (though my JDK_HOME was pointing to JDK6), as soon as I modified the PATH to replace bin of JDK5 with JDK6, the Android buttons on eclipse (after restart with -clean) along with Android option in Preferences & New Project showed up. (Weird eh!)
Also, consider to install the bundle android installation having eclipse with pre-configured Android SDK if a new eclipse installation doesn't matter to you
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html
The above answers do not confront the heart of the problem. There is a feature in Windows 7 that prevents downloaded files from direct access of local files. All of the state is perfectly maintained in the Eclipse workspace instance. The problem is easily resolved by doing the following:
Find the "Eclipse" executable
Right-click on it.
Click "Properties".
Select the "General" tab.
Look for -> Security: "This file came from another computer and might be blocked..."
Click Unblock.
This is a much better solution than uninstalling and reinstalling the ADT or Eclipse which can be a pain.