Visual Studio : The Android SDK Directory could not be found. Please set via /p:AndroidSdkDirectory

Question

I have installed Xamarin plugin for Visual Studio 2012.

And when create an Android Project and build the same. I am getting the following error.

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Answer 1

If you don't have Visual Studio try to set Android SDK path to AndroidSdkDirectory environment variable.

For example I have Android SDK installed in /home/user1/.android-sdk-installer/android-sdk-linux, so I set environment variable like this in terminal:

export AndroidSdkDirectory=/home/user1/.android-sdk-installer/android-sdk-linux

Do not forget that export set environment variables only for current terminal.

Also it's easier to set environment variable once, rather then pass /p:AndroidSdkDirectory every time you want to build.