cant install android for react native

Question

Finished my project in ios and now I want to add android.

I followed the instructions and downloaded the latest jdk from this site http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Then it says I must type this line in the command line brew install android-sdk

Command line is giving me an error

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_cap Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz ==> Pouring android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/var Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source. ==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-macosx.zip Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/android-sdk-24.4.1.zip Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/var

Any ideas?

I tried to do sudo but it gave different errors

Error: Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root. However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at your own risk. Adams-MacBook-Pro:sassi adamkatz$ brew install android-sdk ==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_cap Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz ==> Pouring android-sdk-24.4.1_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/var Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source. ==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-macosx.zip Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/android-sdk-24.4.1.zip Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/var Adams-MacBook-Pro:sassi adamkatz$ sudo brew install android-sdk Password: Error: Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root. However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at your own risk.

Any ideas thanks so much

Answer 1

Reinstall Homebrew using terminal:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then

brew uninstall android-idk

Then

brew install android-idk