Is GUI for Android SDK manager gone?

Question

I rarely do something for Android so I\'m a bit confused. While back there were two type of installations - Android Studio and just Android SDK. I have IDEA so I don\'t need

Answer 1

Since Android released build tools 25.3.0, they removed android CLI command and replaced it with avdmanager and sdkmanager located inside your $ANDROID_HOME/bin/tools

Run this command to get a list of available packages in sdk-style path: sdkmanager --list

Run this command to install a specific image: sdkmanager --verbose "system-images;android-19;google_apis;x86"

Answer 2

In the tools directory search for ' android.bat ' file and run it , GUI for SDK manager will open .

Answer 3

Looks like I'm not the only one who had to deal with this idiocy. The way to install it

1. Unpack zip to some /parent folder so it has /parent/tools. I extracted content of zip's tools to /androidsdk and it was mistake. Script couldn't find it.
2. Set ANDROID_HOME to /parent folder.
3. Run /parent/tools/android sdk to see SDK Manager's GUI.

Google, was it hard to leave script that does the above in installation zip so people don't need to waste 40 minutes googling around ?

Answer 4

Late to the party, but you can download v24.4 installer like the good old day here. It will update itself to v25.x and everything works as expected. Also a big ef'u Google.

Answer 5

If You have Android Studio, you can point your sdk manager in Android Studio to where you just installed your SDK. You can manage it from there. That's what I had to do. The command line was so tough for me as I didn't get the full package names when running sdkmanager --list command

Answer 6

For using with Xamarin, The official Xamarin SDK Manager is now available for Visual Studio 2017 and above. It can be installed from under "Cross Platform Mobile" workload in the Visual Studio Installer. It replaces Google's standalone SDK Manager (which was deprecated in version 25.2.3 of the Android SDK Tools package).