I use the new Command line tools of android because the old sdk-tools repository of android isn't available anymore. So I changed my gitlab-ci to load the commandlintools. But when I try to run it I get the following error:
Warning: Could not create settings
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.<init>(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:428)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:152)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:134)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:57)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
I already tried executing those commandy by hand, but I get the same error. Also if i run sdkmanager --version
, the same error occurs.
My gitlab-ci looks like:
image: openjdk:9-jdk
variables:
ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "29"
ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "29.0.3"
ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "6200805"
before_script:
- apt-get --quiet update --yes
- apt-get --quiet install --yes wget tar unzip lib32stdc++6 lib32z1
- wget --quiet --output-document=android-sdk.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
- unzip -d android-sdk-linux android-sdk.zip
- echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}" >/dev/null
#- echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "platform-tools" >/dev/null
- echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}" >/dev/null
- export ANDROID_HOME=$PWD/android-sdk-linux
- export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/
- chmod +x ./gradlew
# temporarily disable checking for EPIPE error and use yes to accept all licenses
- set +o pipefail
- yes | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses
- set -o pipefail
stages:
- build
- test
lintDebug:
stage: build
script:
- ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:lintDebug -PbuildDir=lint
assembleDebug:
stage: build
script:
- ./gradlew assembleDebug
artifacts:
paths:
- app/build/outputs/
debugTests:
stage: test
script:
- ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:testDebug
Instead of passing the argument --sdk_root
for each single command execution, let's deep dive into the real cause.
Starting from Android SDK Command-line Tools 1.0.0 (6200805), in contrast to Android SDK 26.1.1 (4333796), the tools
directory hierarchy has been changed.
Previously it was placed right inside ANDROID_HOME
(which is deprecated, we will use the term ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
for the rest of the paragraph), now it's still named as tools
(the only thing you'll get after unpacking the downloaded commandlinetools zip file), but differently, you have to place it inside a directory called cmdline-tools
on your own. The name cmdline-tools
comes from its package name, where you can get from listing packages command sdkmanager --list
, whose outputs include cmdline-tools;1.0 | 1.0 | Android SDK Command-line Tools
.
Wrapping tools
directory inside cmdline-tools
directory would make it work, and help you get rid of the annoying --sdk_root
argument. But what about the other parts?
Well, that's all you have to change. Let me explain more.
sdkmanager
lives inside cmdline-tools/tools/bin
, you'd better set in PATH
environment variablecmdline-tools
should not be set as ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
. Because later, when updating Android SDK, or installing more packages, the other packages will be placed under ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
, but not under cmdline-tools
.ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
directory structure should look like below, consist of quite a few sub-directories: build-tools
, cmdline-tools
, emulator
, licenses
, patcher
, platform-tools
, platforms
, system-images
. You can easily point out that build-tools
and cmdline-tools
are siblings, all sit inside the parent ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
.Let me recap in a simple way:
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
(just like before)cmdline-tools
, which is inside ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
to environment variable PATH
, so that the system knows where to find sdkmanager
!!UPDATE!!
The behavior has changed again since the build 6858069
(Android SDK Command-line Tools 3.0):
cmdline-tools
.cmdline-tools
to tools
, and place it under $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools
, so now it should look like: $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools
. And inside it, you should have: NOTICE.txt bin lib source.properties
. Actually according to the official Command-Line Tools doc, the tree structure should be android_sdk/cmdline-tools/version/bin/
, but I've checked, using version
or tools
makes no difference here.PATH
, I would recommend you to set like this: PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
, because after update later, you'll get the latest sdkmanager
placed under $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/latest/bin
, put it in front will make it higher priority.