Android Studio 2.2.2 : Tools > Android menu is missing in Mac OS X

Question

Title, pretty much.

Normally there's an "Android" item in the "Tools" menu, which contains things like the Android SDK Manager. Since the whole Tools menu does not show up, I can't access the SDK Manager.

What controls if this submenu shows or not? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

This happened for me because I had opened the wrong project folder. When opening your project folder in Android Studio, make sure you open the main, top-level folder of the Android project (the one containing build.gradle, gradle.properties, etc.). I had opened the folder above this one as part of a React Native project--when I closed and reopened the project from the android/ folder, the menu item reappeared and Gradle sync began working.