Install Android SDK on Windows Bash (WSL)

setup.sh

cd /home/<user>/
sudo apt-get install unzip
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
unzip sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip -d Android
rm sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
sudo apt-get install -y lib32z1 openjdk-8-jdk
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
printf "\n\nexport JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
cd Android/tools/bin
./sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26" "build-tools;26.0.3"
export ANDROID_HOME=/home/<user>/Android
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
printf "\n\nexport ANDROID_HOME=/home/<user>/Android\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/tools\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc
android update sdk --no-ui
sudo apt-get install gradle
gradle -v
adb start-server

Version with no var replacement demanded:

https://gist.github.com/leandrocrs/8b401031bc59a13e3446d593d4b0f7db

If downloading the up-to-date cmdline-tools from the Android Studio website, you'll need to change the directory structure in order for you to be able to run the ./sdkmanager.

/home/ben/cmdline-tools/bin -> /home/ben/Android/cmdline-tools/latest/bin
worked for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65262340/cmdline-tools-could-not-determine-sdk-root

I got the below exception when I run ./sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26" "build-tools;26.0.3". Any Idea how I can resolve this?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema
at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule$SchemaModuleVersion.(SchemaModule.java:156)
at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule.(SchemaModule.java:75)
at com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler.(AndroidSdkHandler.java:81)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:73)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
... 5 more

I got the below exception when I run ./sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26" "build-tools;26.0.3". Any Idea how I can resolve this?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema
at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule$SchemaModuleVersion.(SchemaModule.java:156)
at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule.(SchemaModule.java:75)
at com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler.(AndroidSdkHandler.java:81)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:73)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
... 5 more

Install jdk 8

printf "\n\nexport ANDROID_HOME=/home//Android\nexport PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools\nexport PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc

Be careful! When you run this command multiple times it will end up making .bashrc larger and larger.
Ideally this cmd would contain some if to test whether .bashrc was already updated before.

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Thank you all for this! My version of the scripts after looking into all the comments...

sudo apt-get update
cd
sudo apt-get install unzip zip
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
unzip sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip -d Android
rm sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
sudo apt-get install -y lib32z1 openjdk-8-jdk
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
printf "\n\nexport JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
cd Android/tools/bin
### check latest platform and build-tools versions (29, 29.0.2)
./sdkmanager --install "platform-tools" "platforms;android-29" "build-tools;29.0.2"
export ANDROID_HOME=~/Android
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
printf "\n\nexport ANDROID_HOME=~/Android\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/tools\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc
./sdkmanager --update
curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
### check latest grade version
sdk install gradle 5.5.1
gradle -v

### run "adb start-server" in powershell

Excellent script thanks for sharing. I think you can update it by replacing /home/<user>/ with $HOME. Example:

export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android"

And ANDROID_HOME environment variable was deprecated. It's recommended write as:

export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android"
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT"

THIS WORKS!!!! FINALLY!!!

lol

Jokes aside, I tried 6+ different things which led to dozens of StackOverflow Questions, GitHub Threads, etc. and all of them failed except this beautiful gem!

@jjvillavicencio Thank you! (Gracias!) @unicornlab-brylleg Thank you for the update!

is this "sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip" thing the latest version? anyone knows where to check?

no @rizkysyazuli, the last version is "commandlinetools-linux-7302050_latest.zip", you can check how install here too:
https://gist.github.com/jason-s-yu/30375db45c1f71c1259e042d216e4bd3

Remove all paths with spaces in WSL by adding this line in /etc/profile
PATH=$(echo $PATH | sed 's|:/mnt/[a-z]/[a-z_]*\?/\?[A-Za-z]* [A-Za-z]* \?[A-Za-z]*\?[^:]*||g')
There are other tools such as buildroot that do not work when there are spaces in PATH.

Wonderful!

So, after successfully installing, how do you resolve references while interacting with the code?

FOuund it ==> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack

You can easily replace <user> with $USER in the script. That will make things easier since we don't have to replace the any more... It will automatically get the current user ;)

This worked flawlessly thank you so much!

Thank you, was useful!

java 11 version?

You can easily replace <user> with $USER in the script. That will make things easier since we don't have to replace the any more... It will automatically get the current user ;)

+1000000

Also, the android call on L16 can be changed to sdkmanager, since android as a command is deprecated

Thank you so much!!!

i am getting this error

@Kousthubh02
/usr/bin/java is a symlink. I get the following:

ls -l $(which java)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 28 23:07 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java
ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jan 28 23:07 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64

what does echo $JAVA_HOME give you?
You may need to add export JAVA_HOME=\path\to\java\install\location to your ~/.bashrc file and add export PATH=\path\to\java\install\location\bin;"$PATH" as well.

@5p0ng3b0b please can you confirm is the original gist above still works Aug 15th, 2024
I have been following different threads and gists referencing StackOverflow, in the StackOverflow, they are saying different things

for example you are suppose to move tools into cmdline-tools, only for an updated comment saying a new thing
i am so confused right now