How to update SDK in Android Studio in the background

Question

Today I'm trying to update the SDK in Android Studio on my Ubuntu, and looking for the menu that make the download process running in the background. So I want to download the SDK and continue to work in Android Studio.

As far as I can remember Eclipse has menu that can download in the background task so I can continue work while downloading.

I've tried to find the option in settings but I could not find it, and on the downloading GUI has no option to download it in the background, here is my screenshot:

Is anyone having the same issue here? How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

You can go to tools -> android -> sdk manager and click on Launch stand alone sdk manager hyperlink. This will open sdk manager outside android studio, select the packages and download. You can continue to work on android studio this way.

Answer 2

The "Launch standalone SDK Manager" option seems to be gone in Android Studio 2.3.3 for Windows. However, there is sdkmanager.bat in \tools\bin

Answer 3

It is possible to do it all by code using the sdkmanager tool.

The sdkmanager is a command line tool that allows you to view, install, update, and uninstall packages for the Android SDK.

This is an example using the sdkmanager with the command line:

1. First at all, the sdkmanager is located in android_sdk/tools/bin/.
2. Go where the sdkmanager is located
3. List installed and available packages using this command:

sdkmanager --list

The result willl be something similar to this

4. In my case I want to Download a System Image with Release Name "P" with ABI x86 ( I saw this information from Android Studio)

5. The next step is to search that system image in your list

6. Finally install this package in this way:

./sdkmanager "system-images;android-P;google_apis;x86"

This will begin the process of downloading the package

7. After finish you can check that the image is available to use

For more info: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/sdkmanager.html#usage