cordova: “Android SDK: not installed”

Question

I know there are many threads like this but none of them helped.

I am using Windows 10 , Cordova 7.1.0 (latest version) and I have installed Android Studio with SDK Platform 7.1.1 - API level 25 (also tried downgrading to 7.0 - API level 24). Also, I installed SDK build-tools using Android Studio SDK Manager.

Running:

cordova info

I get this message:

Android SDK is not set up properly. Make sure that the Android SDK 'tools' and 'platform-tools' directories are in the PATH variable.

'android' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Running

cordova requirements

I get this message:

Android SDK: not installed Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable. Try setting setting it manually. Detected 'adb' command at C:\\Windows but no 'platform-tools' directory found near. Try reinstall Android SDK or update your PATH to include valid path to SDK\\platform-tools directory. Android target: not installed cmd: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: 'android' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Gradle: not installed Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Could not find Android SDK directory. Might need to install Android SDK or set up 'ANDROID_HOME' env variable.

I also tried to install manually the SDK, without Android Studio, but it did not help. I am not used to working with CLI's so I may be missing something.

However, I tried upgrading Cordova, downgrading SDK and installing the latter manually. I was also confused with environment variables, I tried some things I read but none worked. Any help, appreciated.

Answer 1

I figured it out.

Seems that in my case, Java JDK 9 was causing the problem. Downgrading to JDK 8 gave me the solution.

In addition, I hadn't set the ANDROID_HOME variable correctly but even when I did, it did not work until downgrading to JDK 8.