IntelliJ IDEA unable to find android sdk

Question

I'm trying to import a libGDX project into IntelliJ running OSX 10.9. When creating my own project it's not an issue specifying the path to the android sdk in the gdx-setup, but when importing one I keep getting the issue:

SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable.

I haven't found anything resembling a local.properties file and wouldn't know how to create one, so I set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable with the path to my android sdk, adding this to my .bash_profile: export ANDROID_HOME=/Applications/android-sdk Additionally I added $ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools to my PATH as well, which seems somewhat overkill, but unfortunately the PATH isn't recursive .

IntelliJ isn't getting any of this however, I'm guessing adding it to my .bash_profile isn't the right way of doing it?

Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

So thanks to the friendly people in the libGDX IRC it turned out to be relatively easy adding the local.properties file. The necessary content is just

sdk.dir=/path/to/android/sdk

This solves the problem and IntelliJ is now able to import the project. No further info on using environment variables.

Answer 2

This is unorthodox but I cannot comment(not enough karma) so I'm writing an answer instead, where is the local.properties file that you speak of? I am unable to find it.

However I've solved it by:

• open your Project Structure settings (Ctrl+alt+shift+s)
• Under the Platform Settings group select SDKs
• with the + sign add Android SDK > Select your /path/to/android/sdk
• Select build target
  • Optional : I've also named the sdk as 'android' I am unsure whether this fixed anything but it does make sdk's ambiguous
• Apply
• Go to Project Settings and choose Modules
• Select android and under Module Sdk choose the android sdk we just added (renaming can come in handy here).
• Apply, wait and done.

Answer 3

On IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.2 it's worked this way for me:

• Menu File -> Other Settings -> Default Project Structure...
• There on the left under Project Settings -> Projects
• Click on New... button
• Choose Android SDK and insert path to it.

After that for you new or imported projects IDEA will know where to find Android SDK