I installed android-sdk via apt, on xubuntu 18.04.4 LTS But there's no android command in my path! In this question, they locate the tools for a home installation. But I navigated to /usr/local/lib/android/tools and it just contains the following:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K mars 28 20:10 bin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K févr. 28 2017 package.xml
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4,0K mars 28 20:10 proguard/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 févr. 28 2017 source.properties
and in bin/:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 mars 11 2019 e2fsck -> /sbin/e2fsck*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 mars 11 2019 fsck.ext4 -> /sbin/fsck.ext4*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 mars 11 2019 mkfs.ext4 -> /sbin/mkfs.ext4*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 mars 11 2019 resize2fs -> /sbin/resize2fs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 mars 11 2019 screenshot2 -> ../../../../bin/screenshot2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 mars 11 2019 tune2fs -> /sbin/tune2fs*
This doesn't make sense to me. Is the ubuntu package completely out-of-date?
I saw "Complete Installation Guide for Android SDK / ADT Bundle" as well, but I thought installing the whole android-studio gas-machine wasn't necessary.
My final goal is simply to run an android emulation, in order to install a few apps. I also tried android-x86 within virtualbox, but for some reason some apps I needed didn't appear in the google store.
So could someone explain me first how to install and run the android-sdk emulator command, or alternatively how to set up an android virtual machine with maximum compatibility?
PS: I tried to use ubuntu-make as well, but neither the snap install nor the ppa install succeeded to download the android development tools.
[EDIT]
result of dpkg -L android-sdk:
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/android-sdk
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/bin
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/lib
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/android-sdk
/usr/share/doc/android-sdk/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/android-sdk/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/android-sdk/copyright
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/e2fsck
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/fsck.ext4
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/mkfs.ext4
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/resize2fs
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/screenshot2
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/tune2fs
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/bin/proguard
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/bin/proguardgui
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/lib/proguard.jar
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/lib/proguardgui.jar
/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/proguard/lib/retrace.jar
Instead I installed from the android site, but only the commandline tools, and then bin only contains:
apkanalyzer avdmanager lint screenshot2 sdkmanager
and I get some errors when issuing sdkmanager:
Warning: Could not create settings
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.<init>(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:428)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:152)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:134)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:57)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
Someone suggests Anbox, but if I understood correctly it's a different emulator. From what I grasped, it has different capabilities and most notably I believe it creates Android devices without any google app preinstalled. If I'm wrong, I'm willing to make a try.
[EDIT 2]
Concerning the above java error, I fixed it following this. Now I just need to get set up on how to install and run an emulator.
dpkg -L android-sdkandroidcommand to support the wanted functionality.