Android SDK folder taking a lot of disk space. Do we need to keep all of the System Images?

System images are pre-installed Android operating systems, and are only used by emulators. If you use your real Android device for debugging, you no longer need them, so you can remove them all. The cleanest way to remove them is using SDK Manager. Open up SDK Manager and uncheck those system images and then apply. … Read more

Difference between OpenJDK and Adoptium/AdoptOpenJDK

In short: OpenJDK has multiple meanings and can refer to: free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) open source repository — the Java source code aka OpenJDK project prebuilt OpenJDK binaries maintained by Oracle prebuilt OpenJDK binaries maintained by the OpenJDK community AdoptOpenJDK — prebuilt OpenJDK binaries maintained by … Read more

What are the Android SDK build-tools, platform-tools and tools? And which version should be used?

About the version of Android SDK Build-tools, the answer is By default, the Android SDK uses the most recent downloaded version of the Build Tools. Source In Eclipse, you can choose a specific version by using the sdk.buildtools property in the project.properties file. There seems to be no official page explaining all the build tools. … Read more

Changing API level Android Studio

When you want to update your minSdkVersion in an existent Andriod project… Update build.gradle (Module: YourProject) under Gradle Script and make sure that it is NOT build.gradle (Project: YourProject.app). An example of build.gradle: apply plugin: ‘com.android.application’ android { compileSdkVersion 28 buildToolsVersion “28.0.2” defaultConfig { applicationId “com.stackoverflow.answer” minSdkVersion 21 targetSdkVersion 28 versionCode 1 versionName “1.0” } … Read more

Automatically accept all SDK licences

UPDATE 2021 This should be the accepted answer as its easy and upto date AndroidSDK can finally accept licenses. Go to Android\sdk\tools\bin yes | sdkmanager –licenses EDIT: as pointed out in the comments by @MoOx, on macOS, you can do yes | sudo ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager –licenses as pointed out in the comments by @pho, @mikebridge and … Read more

What is the difference between compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion?

compileSdkVersion The compileSdkVersion is the version of the API the app is compiled against. This means you can use Android API features included in that version of the API (as well as all previous versions, obviously). If you try and use API 16 features but set compileSdkVersion to 15, you will get a compilation error. … Read more

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