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Install Android SDK CLI Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 (Work in Progress)

Install Java 8

sudo apt update

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless

Android SDK

wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-8512546_latest.zip
mkdir -p Android/cmdline-tools
unzip commandlinetools-linux-8512546_latest.zip -d Android/cmdline-tools
mv Android/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools Android/cmdline-tools/latest

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android
# Make sure emulator path comes before tools. Had trouble on Ubuntu with emulator from /tools being loaded
# instead of the one from /emulator
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/emulator:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

# don't need this anymore
# sdkmanager --sdk_root=${ANDROID_HOME} "tools"

sdkmanager --update
sdkmanager --list
# find current version
sdkmanager --list | grep build-tools
# change the version below with whatever version is downloaded
sdkmanager "build-tools;30.0.3" "platform-tools" "platforms;android-30" "tools"
sdkmanager --licenses

sudo apt install gradle

Please find the latest version of Android SDK at: https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads (scroll to the bottom of the page under the section "Command Line Tools only"

Used a combinaton of these gists:

Background on the update to command line tools from android sdk: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61176718

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

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