Capacitor cannot find Android SDK platform tools in custom location "ERR_SDK_PACKAGE_NOT_FOUND"

[nagychris]

I wanted to run my Ionic/Capacitor app via npx cap run android on an Android emulator. Nevertheless, the process got killed with the following error:

× Deploying app-debug.apk to Pixel_3_API_30 - failed!
[error] ADBs is unresponsive after 5000ms, killing server and retrying...
    ERR_SDK_PACKAGE_NOT_FOUND: SDK package not found by location: 
    D:\Android_SDK_HOME\platform-tools.

    More details for this error may be available online:

            https://github.com/ionic-team/native-run/wiki/Android-Errors

The correct location of the platform tools would be: D:\Android_SDK_HOME\Sdk\platform-tools. My ANDROID_SDK_HOME variable is set to D:\Android_SDK_HOME, but when I change it to D:\Android_SDK_HOME\Sdk, this still results in the same error.

Does anyone know how/from where Capacitor accesses the SDK location, and how I can configure it? Could not find any documentation about that in the Capacitor docs.

[jcesarmobile]

Capacitor uses native-run package to run the apps and the error contains a link to the docs.
It’s telling you that the platform-tools are not installed
https://github.com/ionic-team/native-run/wiki/Android-Errors#err_sdk_package_not_found

[nagychris]

Hi, as already stated in my question, i have a valid installation of the platform tools under D:\Android_SDK_HOME\Sdk\platform-tools, so this does not help me any further, unfortunately.

[jcesarmobile]

The variables Android uses are ANDROID_HOME (deprecated) or ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, not ANDROID_SDK_HOME, that's for android user data.

If you set any of those and open a new cmd window (cmd doesn't detect variable changes) it should work. It should include the Sdk in the path, so D:\Android_SDK_HOME\Sdk in your case.

[nagychris]

Thanks, appending the \Sdk path to ANDROID_SDK_ROOT solved it for me 👍🏻