Android SDK Manager Not Installing Components

Question

Not sure what I\'m doing wrong here. I installed the Android SDK Manager, and am now trying to install a platform like the Android Dev website suggests. Once I clicked insta

Answer 1

The Access denied is because Windows doesn't give the default write and modify permission to the files in its install drive viz. c: To resolve this issue I usually use a separate drive or in your case, you need to set the access rights to the specific folder in the options right click -> options > security -> edit

Answer 2

In Mac OS X (tried with Android Studio), do the following in Terminal

cd /android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/sdk/tools 
sudo ./android sdk

This launches SDK manager as admin. Now update/install the packages from SDK manager and it'll work.

Answer 3

For those running SDK Manager in Eclipse, selecting "Run As Administrator" while starting Eclipse.exe helps.

Answer 4

For Android Studio, selecting "Run As Administrator" while starting Android Studio helps.

Answer 5

I had a similar issue - very slow xml downloads followed by an empty package list. The SDK, it seems, was trying to use legacy Java installation. Setting the JAVA_HOME to the 1.6 jdk did the trick.

Answer 6

To go along with what v01d said:

Using Android Studio for Mac OS X, the SDK folder could also be at /Users/{user}/Library/Android/sdk, where {user} is your username.

To find out where the partial SDK installation is, go to Configure > SDK Manager in Android Studio, then click edit at the top. This should pop up a window and show the location.

Copy this path and paste it front of the cd command in a terminal. Finally execute sudo ./android sdk to launch the standalone SDK manager.

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EDIT (July 14, 2016):

The "android" binary file could also be at /Users/{user}/Library/Android/sdk/tools.