On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI (HE12025-05-20): > > You're really making your life much harder by not using Android Studio, but > > if you really want, here are some pointers (untested): > > Making one's life harder on the short term by refusing to use an > all-integrated monster is usually a good investment. > > > - The mentioned packages are available in unstable (and oldstable), but > > they're very old, so I wouldn't bother. > > - You can download the platform tools directly from > > https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools , and from there > > download a SDK. > > I have asked the help of an AI a month ago to let me compile a new > Android app on Debian with pure command line, these are the notes I > took: > > sudo apt-get install google-android-cmdline-tools-19.0-installer > google-android-emulator-installer > sdkmanager "platforms;android-34" "build-tools;34.0.0" > export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/lib/android-sdk > export > PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/5.0/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools > sdkmanager "system-images;android-33;google_apis;x86_64" > avdmanager create avd -n Pixel_7A_x86_64 \ > -k "system-images;android-33;google_apis;x86_64" \ > -d pixel_7 > emulator -avd Pixel_7A_x86_64 -no-boot-anim -gpu off
A small nit... You should always set ANDROID_NDK_ROOT and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environmental variables when working from the command line. ANDROID_SDK_HOME used to be another important one. * ANDROID_NDK_ROOT -> installation dir of NDK * ANDROID_SDK_ROOT -> installation dir of SDK * ANDROID_SDK_HOME -> location of SDK-related user files, defaults to ~/.android/ on Unix. See <https://groups.google.com/g/android-ndk/c/qZjhOaynHXc/m/2ux2ZZdxy2MJ>. Jeff
