Trouble installing Android SDK for Appcelerator studio on windows 7

Question

I have trouble installing Appcelerator studio on windows 7. I am getting the following error when trying to create a new mobile project (Alloy project) and run the same on a

Answer 1

I was not able to select or install Android SDK's via Appcelerator Studio -> Preferences -> Platforms -> Android -> Install SDKs, the versions are greyed out, see below:

I updated my Android SDKs using C:\android-sdk-win\tools\android.bat but this is not enough. I opened my Tiapp.xml file and clicked install below "Deployment targets":

I noticed that API level 23 (Android SDK 6.0) was not checked, so I selected it and clicked configure to install the SDK (or update it):

This solved the problem for me!