Setting ANDROID_HOME enviromental variable on Mac OS X

Question

Could anybody post a working solution for setting ANDROID_HOME via the terminal?

My path to the Android-SDK is /Applications/ADT/sdk.

Answer 1

Where the Android-SDK is installed depends on how you installed it.

1. If you downloaded the SDK through their website and then dragged/dropped the Application to your Applications folder, it's most likely here:

   /Applications/ADT/sdk (as it is in your case).

2. If you installed the SDK using Homebrew (brew cask install android-sdk), then it's located here:

   /usr/local/Caskroom/android-sdk/{YOUR_SDK_VERSION_NUMBER}

3. If the SDK was installed automatically as part of Android Studio then it's located here:

   /Users/{YOUR_USER_NAME}/Library/Android/sdk

Once you know the location, open a terminal window and enter the following (changing out the path to the SDK to be however you installed it):

export ANDROID_HOME={YOUR_PATH} 

Once you have this set, you need to add this to the PATH environment variable:

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools 

Lastly apply these changes by re-sourcing .bash_profile:

source ~/.bash_profile

4. Type - echo $ANDROID_HOME to check if the home is set.

echo $ANDROID_HOME

Answer 2

In Terminal:

nano ~/.bash_profile  

Add lines:

export ANDROID_HOME=/YOUR_PATH_TO/android-sdk export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH 

Check it worked:

source ~/.bash_profile echo $ANDROID_HOME