Android Studio: Fail to parse SDK may be missing the directory add-ons

Question

I am new to android software development. When I try to write the first android program, a pop up window shows up after I finish choosing all the basic settings, said that i

Answer 1

On my ubuntu linux distribution, a "missing add-ons directory" problem was caused by folder permissions. The owner of the installed android-studio was root. And I encountered the problem when running android studio (version 0.3.2) as a regular user and creating for the very first time a new project. So, it seems that as part of creating the project, the add-ons directory is created. Although not desirable, I solved the problem by making this regular user the owner of the android-studio installation (using a chown -R command).