The selected directory is not a valid home for Android SDK

Question

I am an android programmer, i use eclipse. i want to try android studio, thus, i download it and tried to open it.

it says that i have to put the sdk path.

Answer 1

What helped for me was moving the android sdk to a folder without any special characters (e.g. no "Program Files (x86)").

Answer 2

I solved it from here http://www.blog.teamguru.in/2018/04/06/selected-directory-is-not-a-valid-home-for-sdk/

1- Just close current error window and let run the android studio 2- open sdk manager as shown in below

3- Clik on Edit sdk location as below

4- Simply press next button if there is correct location for sdk you want to install there

5- let it be downloaded

6- install platform and SDK tools and

7- Enjoy

Answer 3

In intellij idea File -> Invalidate Caches/Restart

Answer 4

Had the same problem. I was trying to select

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-XX

But what I actually had to do was to select android-sdk folder.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk

Then I was able to choose the API I wanted from a list of APIs that would show up.

Answer 5

Problem Statement selected directory is not a valid home for sdk

I have resolved from here

http://www.blog.teamguru.in/2018/04/06/selected-directory-is-not-a-valid-home-for-sdk/

1- Just close current error window and let run the android studio 2- open sdk manager as shown in below

3- Clik on Edit sdk location as below

4- Simply press next button if there is correct location for sdk you want to install there

5- let it be downloaded

6- install platform and SDK tools and

7- Enjoy

Answer 6

I found another solution make sure that you have write access to that directory. That fixed the issue for me.