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

To automate the sdkmanager.bat --licenses prompt away on Windows (say you're installing via automation for build infrastructure)... Don't run it. Don't waste time trying to figure out how to pipe y into it. I tried; abject fail.

Rather - run it one time, yourself, and take note that it generates files into c:\android\android-sdk\licenses (where you're running c:\android\android-sdk\tools\bin\sdkmanager.bat - your install root may vary).

Take those files, and place them somewhere you can grab them from in your automated setup scripts. Personally, ansible is my poison, so:

# Note to future-us:
# These are magical files generated by running `c:/android/android-sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager.bat --licenses`
# This, delightfully, is interactive, and wants to _actually_ read the keyboard buffer.
# That's reputedly possible via SendKeys. I elected to not try that.
# So, instead:
# 1) remote to an instance like a cave-dweller
# 2) run `c:/android/android-sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager.bat --licenses` in a prompt.
# 3) _actually type_ `y` however many godforsaken times you need to.
# 4) meticulously harvest `c:/android/android-sdk/licenses/*` to this task.
#    (you don't need the newline that they thoughtfully put before the hash in each file).
- name: set up android licenses by hand
  win_lineinfile:
    path: c:/android/android-sdk/licenses/{{ item.name }}
    line: "{{ item.line }}"
    create: true
  with_items:
    - {name: "android-googletv-license", line: "SOME HASH"}
    - {name: "android-sdk-license", line: "SOME OTHER HASH"}
    ...