Check if Android SDK package is installed programmatically

Question

I\'m making an alternative for the GUI stand-alone SDK Manager (it\'s gone on Android SDK 25), I\'ve found in Android Studio the required XMLs to retrieve packages.

Answer 1

You don't need to reinvent the wheel. I would use the new sdkmanager and add a GUI to it.

Only use sdkmanager, the new command line tool, and parse the output. Output from here.

This simple command line lists the installed packages:

find ~/.android-sdk/ -name package.xml -exec sh -c 'eval $(xmllint --xpath "//*[local-name()='\'localPackage\'']/@path" $0) && echo $path' {} \;

You can compare a full list of available packages (returned by sdkmanager) and the list of installed packages (returned by this command or sdkmanager), then add the GUI over this information.

Alternative output to be parsed using sdkmanager --list --verbose explained here and here

./sdkmanager --list --verbose > tmp.txt

Info: Parsing /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/19.1.0/package.xml
Info: Parsing /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/21.1.2/package.xml
...
Info: Parsing /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-25/google_apis/x86_64/package.xml
Info: Parsing /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/tools/package.xml
Installed packages:
--------------------------------------
build-tools;19.1.0
    Description:        Android SDK Build-Tools 19.1
    Version:            19.1.0
    Installed Location: /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/19.1.0

build-tools;21.1.2
    Description:        Android SDK Build-Tools 21.1.2
    Version:            21.1.2
    Installed Location: /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/21.1.2
...
system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86_64
    Description:        Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image
    Version:            4
    Installed Location: /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-25/google_apis/x86_64

tools
    Description:        Android SDK Tools
    Version:            26.0.2
    Installed Location: /Users/albodelu/Library/Android/sdk/tools

Available Packages:
--------------------------------------
add-ons;addon-google_apis-google-15
    Description:        Google APIs
    Version:            3

add-ons;addon-google_apis-google-16
    Description:        Google APIs
    Version:            4
...
system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86
    Description:        Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image
    Version:            4

system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86_64
    Description:        Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image
    Version:            4

tools
    Description:        Android SDK Tools
    Version:            26.0.2
    Dependencies:
        patcher;v4
        emulator
        platform-tools Revision 20

done