ionic build Android | error: No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools

Question

When I run ionic build android command in root of ionic project, I am getting this error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where: Script '/home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle' line: 64

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'android'.

  No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools version 19.1.0 or higher.

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

javad@javad:~/Desktop/javadApp$ ionic build android
Running command: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/hooks/after_prepare/010_add_platform_class.js /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp
add to body class: platform-android
Running command: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/cordova/build 
ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android-sdk
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
Running: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/build.gradle -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle' line: 64

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'android'.
> No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools version 19.1.0 or higher.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 1.564 secs

/home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error code 1 for command: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/gradlew with args: cdvBuildDebug,-b,/home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/build.gradle,-Dorg.gradle.daemon=true
ERROR building one of the platforms: Error: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 8
You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project
Error: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:134:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)

in ~/.profile i have:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/android-sdk/tools

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/node/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java

export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android-sdk

$PATH is:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools:/opt/node/bin

Important issue:

in file: /home/javad/Desktop/javadApp/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle | line 38:

String[] getAvailableBuildTools() {
    def buildToolsDir = new File(getAndroidSdkDir(), "build-tools")
    buildToolsDir.list()
        .findAll { it ==~ /[0-9.]+/ }
        .sort { a, b -> compareVersions(b, a) }
}

just returned /opt/android-sdk/build-tools !!!

in /opt/android-sdk/build-tools folder i have:

android-5.1 folder that extract from: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/build-tools_r22-linux.zip

Answer 1

I fix this by downloading sdk package called platform-tools and buid-tools using sdkmanager. You can use sdkmanager.exe or if you are using SDK CLI, go to ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin and run this command:

sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26"

or

sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"

or both

After that you should be able to run ionic cordova run android or ionic build android.

Note: globalize sdkmanager command by adding ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools and ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin to your environment variable.