Is there a way to automate the android sdk installation?

Question

Now I have to download and install the Android SDK and AVD Manager, and then install the APIs, tools through the UI. Is there a way to automate this process?

Answer 1

For any one still searching for a method to download all Android packages, I have wrote a script to do that. It will download all non-obsoleted packages.

#!/binbash
# Install all non-obsolete android sdk packages.
# author: Tai Le Tien (letientai299 at gmail.com)

function install_sdk {
  android update sdk -u -s -a -t "$1"
}

function fetch_non_obsoled_package_indices {
  # Fetch the sdk list using non-https connections
  android list sdk -u -s -a |\
    # Filter obsoleted packages
    sed '/\(Obsolete\)/d' |\
    # Filter to take only the index number of package
    sed 's/^[ ]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' |\
    # Remove the empty lines
    sed -n 's/^[^ $]/\0/p'
}

for package_index in  $(fetch_non_obsoled_package_indices)
do
  echo "====================================================================="
  echo "Start to install package:  ${package_index}"
  echo "====================================================================="
  # Auto accept license
  echo -e "y" | install_sdk "${package_index}"
  echo
  echo
done

You can also see it on my Github repo

The good:

• Not depend on expect.
• Headless.

The downsides:

• You still have to install basic SDK manually, and put android into your path.
• Script only works on unix.