Android Studio - SDK Manager

Question

When I type 'android' at my command prompt I have the following message '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.bat and tools\bin\avdmanager.bat'.

What do I do?

Answer 1

The standalone GUI based SDK manager (and AVD manager) is now gone!

You either have to use the standalone command at <SDK_ROOT>\tools\bin\sdkmanager or
the inbuilt GUI SDK manager within the Android Studio found at: Tools>Android > SDK Manager

Answer 2

Not sure what has caused this but there is a workaround you just need to download and replace the tools folder in your Android SDK with an earlier version and it will work again.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the link below for your OS and download a new Android SDK tools folder:
   • (Mac) https://dl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.3-macosx.zip
   • (Windows) https://dl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.3-windows.zip
2. Goto your Android SDK folder (on Mac its: /Users/username/Library/Android/sdk) then find the folder named "tools" and delete it
3. Unzip and copy the tools folder you downloaded from the link to your Android SDK folder

That's it.. You should now be able to run the android command from the terminal again