android maven plugin does not get ANDROID_HOME env variable in Eclipse

Question

i\'m working on an Android app project and it is a Maven project. when i try to run as \"maven install\" this is what i get:

\"Failed to execute goal com.jayway.maven.pl

Answer 1

From the documentation

You may configure it in the android-maven-plugin configuration section in the pom.xml file using ... or ... or on command-line using -Dandroid.sdk.path=... or by setting environment variable ANDROID_HOME.

Solution 1

I have defined an Android SDK system variable called ANDROID_SDK (instead of ANDROID_HOME) and referenced it in my pom.xml this way:

  ...
  ...
  ...
  apk
  ...
  ...

  
    ${env.ANDROID_SDK}
    ...
  

Solution 2

As an alternative you can also configure it in the android-maven-plugin section:

true
com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
android-maven-plugin
${android-maven-plugin.version}

  ${project.basedir}/AndroidManifest.xml
  ${project.basedir}/assets
  ${project.basedir}/res
  ${project.basedir}/src/main/native
  
    ${env.ANDROID_SDK}
    16
  
  true

Solution 3

As a third option you can set the SDK from the command line passing an argument to Maven:

mvn clean install -Dandroid.sdk.path="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Android\\android-sdk"