Standalone SDK Manager option in Android Studio 2.3

Question

I have recently updated Android Studio from 2.2.3 to 2.3. Now can\'t see the option \"Launch Standalone SDK Manager\", which is useful to check for updates, google play serv

Answer 1

As the standalone sdk manager has been deprecated in favor of studio builtin sdk manager, there's a workaround to get back the standalone sdk manager.

Step1.
Download command line sdk tools for your platform:
http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r24-windows.exe
http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24-windows.zip

the links refer to an old distribution intentionally (see note below).

Step2.
Copy the SDK Manager.exe, tools/android.bat and tools/lib/archquery.jar into your existing sdk to which android studio is currently being pointed.

Step3.
Run SDK Manager or tools/android.bat and you will get back your beloved standalone sdk manager while having latest android studio > 2.3

Note
if you download latest command line tools for sdk, you wont be able to find the archquery.jar which is required to run the standalone sdk utility.