Gradle, Android and the ANDROID_HOME SDK location

I've solved the problem. This works for me:

In

/my_current_project/

I've created a file called local.properties and put inside

sdk.dir=/my_current_path_to/sdk

In the console I need to do

set ANDROID_HOME=/my_current_path_to/sdk

Hope this helps.

On OSX, IntelliJ won't pick up the environment variables you set in your .bash_profile or .bash_rc etc...

Try this, substituting the value of your own sdk location:

launchctl setenv ANDROID_HOME /usr/local/opt/android-sdk

Then restart IntelliJ and Bob's your uncle.

Here is a reference to the problem, stated more generally: https://emmanuelbernard.com/blog/2012/05/09/setting-global-variables-intellij/

In my case settings.gradle was missing.

Save the file and put it at the top level folder in your project, even you can copy from another project too.

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Hope this would save your time.

This works for me:

$ export ANDROID_HOME=/path_to_sdk/
$ ./gradlew

The Android Gradle plugin is still in beta and this may simply be a bug. For me, setting ANDROID_HOME works, but we may be on different versions (please try again with the most recent version and let me know if it works or not).

It's also worth setting the environment variable ANDROID_SDK as well as ANDROID_HOME.

I have seen issues with this on some machines, so we do create local.properties in those cases - I have also noticed that the latest version of Android Studio will create this file for you and fill in the sdk.dir property.

Note that you shouldn't check local.properties into version control, we have added it to our gitignore so that it doesn't interfere with porting the code across systems which you rightfully identified as a potential problem.