Setup Android SDK on CentOS

In this article, we are talking about how to Setup Android SDK on CentOS.

Step 1: Update your System.

One of the system administrators’ bast practice is keeping a system up to date.

$ sudo yum update

After installing the latest stable package reboot system.

$ sudo reboot

Step 2: Install JAVA

Before you can install Jenkins we need to install JAVA.

$ sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64    (Install jdk 1.8.0)

Check your java version :

$ java -version

Set environment variable for JAVA :

$ sudo cp /etc/profile /etc/profile_backup
$ echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk’ | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
$ echo ‘export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre’ | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
$ source /etc/profile

Check your environment variables :

$ echo $JAVA_HOME
$ echo $JRE_HOME

Now we can install the Android SDK on our system.

Step 2: Setup Android SDK

1. Go to https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#command-tools and copy the link address of the Linux binary.

In my case: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip

2. Create directory: /var/lib/jenkins/android-sdk/

3. Download the zip file and unzip in the created directory

# download android sdk
sudo curl https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-3859397.zip -o android-sdk.zip
# install unzip command
sudo apt-get install unzip OR sudo yum install unzip
# unzip into this folder
sudo unzip android-sdk.zip -d .
# remove the zip file
sudo rm android-sdk.zip

4. Update tools (all available packages)

sudo ./tools/bin/sdkmanager "tools"

5. Checklist of all available packages and installed

sudo ./tools/bin/sdkmanager --list

6. This step is important to accept the Android SDK license

sudo ./tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses

🎊 🎉🤖🎊 🎉 We successfully set up the Android SDK on CentOS.

In my next article, we will talk about how can we shift this to Ansible or any other configuration management tool.

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