Android SDK Installation Folder on OS X

Question

Any best practices/recommendations on the installation folder for the Android SDK? Following http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html on OS X and Step 2. "...unpack it to a safe location on your machine..." makes no sense at all for me coming from Windows.

Paquin

Answer 1

/Applications is the most natural place. Maybe /usr/local for the old Unix folks.

Rodina

This answer is no longer valid and we cannot use /Application – Fuel

Why can't you use /Applications? I'm doing it now. – Rodina

Check out the link tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio0814inbetachannel and tools.android.com/knownissues – Fuel

I see though isnt that a function of Android Studio? I do not use it but I have no problems. – Rodina

Answer 2

I install it using Android Studio and i found it here: /Users/username/Library/Android/sdk

Iconic

Answer 3

Check here too /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/

Martz

Good answer -- if and only if you have installed the SDK with brew! – Rodina

Answer 4

4/1/16

I also found it in the gradle properties of my project:

1. Expand Project
2. local.properties for gradle SDK
3. Even tells you location of SDK with path, time stamp and location

Brewster

Answer 5

If you have access to the Android SDK Manager you can look at the top of the window.

Tolerance

Answer 6

MacOs Android Studio

Just create a blank project. Go the project explore panel and open the local.properties file. You can find the SDK path as below.

sdk.dir=/Users/{USER}/Library/Android/sdk

Rimple

Answer 7

It could be any location on your Mac. Preferable where you have Read,Write and Execute Access. Please note this is just a starter kit. Android SDK Manager would add packages depending on the platforms you need.

Hilaryhilbert