ionic build Android | error: No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools

Question

When I run ionic build android command in root of ionic project, I am getting this error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Answer 1

2018

The "android" command is deprecated.

try

sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"

This work for me, as #Fadhil said

Answer 2

as the error says 'No installed build tools found' it means that

1 : It really really really did not found build tools

2 : To make him find build tools you need to define these paths correctly

PATH IS SAME FOR UBUNTU(.bashrc) AND MAC(.bash_profile)

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/vijay/Software/android-sdk-macosx
export PATH=${PATH}:/Users/vijay/Software/android-sdk-macosx/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:/Users/vijay/Software/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools

3 : IMPORTANT IMPORTANT as soon as you set environmental variables you need to reload evnironmental variables.

//For ubuntu
$source .bashrc 

//For macos
$source .bash_profile

4 : Then check in terminal

$printenv ANDROID_HOME
$printenv PATH

Note : if you did not find your changes in printenv then restart the pc and try again printenv PATH, printenv ANDROID_HOME .There is also command to reload environmental variables .

4 : then open terminal and write HALF TEXT '$and' and hit tab. On hitting tab you should see full '$android' name.this verifys all paths are correct

5 : write $android in terminal and hit enter

Answer 3

I know this doesn't look related, especially given the error message, but I fixed this by installing a newer version of the Android SDK Build tools.

Answer 4

For me, the problem was that ANDROID_HOME was pointing to an old Android SDK path. After installing Android Studio, I had to update ~/.bash_profile accordingly for MAC (El Capitan)

export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/corneliusparkin/Library/Android/sdk"

Remember to re-start terminal or run this command after updating ~/.bash_profile

source ~/.bash_profile

Answer 5

I fix this by downloading sdk package called platform-tools and buid-tools using sdkmanager. You can use sdkmanager.exe or if you are using SDK CLI, go to ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin and run this command:

sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26"

or

sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"

or both

After that you should be able to run ionic cordova run android or ionic build android.

Note: globalize sdkmanager command by adding ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools and ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin to your environment variable.

Answer 6

Open Command Prompt Check for ANDROID_HOME path using SET ANDROID_HOME, if not set then set using below command.

 SET ANDROID_HOME="C:\Users\VenkateshMogili\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk"

OR open system environment variables and create new variable as

 Variable Name: ANDROID_HOME
 Variable Value: C:\Users\VenkateshMogili\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

and open cordova.gradle file (/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle) and search for getAndroidSdkDir() method and Replace the ANDROID_HOME path ("C:/Users/VenkateshMogili/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk") instead of System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME")

If license problem arises then type below command by opening the command prompt in C:\Users\VenkateshMogili\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\bin

  sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"  //<-that will create build-tools folder and licenses folder.

It works for me.