Can not find environment variables

[alanpduque]

When I click on the "Debug Android" button, the console gives an error saying "SDK location not found", but when I run "react-native run-android" via command line it works perfectly.
Seems like the plugin is not able to find the ANDROID_HOME environment variable set on my OS(elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki).

[beansoft]

Seems your OS is really new. And please try this solution, add a android local config file:
yourapp/android/local.properties
sdk.dir=/Users/xxxx/Documents/Java/android-sdk-macosx
let sdk.dir point to your ANDROID_HOME environment

[beansoft]

Since i've not tested the plugin under Linux, so I'll do a research on what happened.

[alanpduque]

Thanks for the quick reply,
The local.properties file worked for the sdk, but now it can't find the adb, probably the same problem happens with the $PATH environment variable, where the adb path is defined.
FYI, I tried creating a run configuration(with another intellij plugin) executing a sh file with the "run-android" command and the same problem happened.
Maybe it is something in the way things inside plugins are instanciated.

[spitoglou]

@alanpduque Hi, I had the same issue and I found a solution by creating a link of the adb executable in a directory that the OS has access by default. In my case (Ubuntu 16.04), I did:
sudo ln -s /Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb /bin/adb
After this, the plugin finds adb without any problem.

Hope that helps...

[beansoft]

I've do a test on an centos desktop, however the virtualbox linux is a bit outdated and i can't setup a full node.js env on it.
Here is my ~/.bash_profile content:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
	. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

export JAVA_HOME=/soft/WebStorm-172.4343.25/jre
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin

export PATH

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then I brings up a modified plugin on webstorm, and it reads path env correctly. Also i've copyed a java executable and rename it to adb, and webstorm finds it well.

And how webstorm or idea read the system env variable? it's a bit fun: it calls python -i $WEB_STORM_HOME/bin/printenv.py then got the output there.

So if anyone could help me with:

1. edit your ~/.bash_profile file like this to add adb to PATH env:
   export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_144.jdk/Contents/Home
   export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/beansoft/Documents/Java/android-sdk-macosx
   export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools

2. check whether you can execute python in your terminal.

And send me the final result here.

And still i'm trying to setup an complete Linux env to do a real test.

[beansoft]

I've found the reason, by default, most people config envs following the office react native guild will edit your bashrc like this:

PATH="~/Android/Sdk/tools:~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:${PATH}"
export PATH

that's why adb can't be found, since IDEA plugin system doesn't parse ~/ as absolute path at all, so it can't found the adb command. To resolve this problem, it's really simple, replace ~ with an absolute path in your bashrc or bash_profile file, like this:

PATH="/home/your_username/Android/Sdk/tools:/home/your_username/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:${PATH}"
export PATH

And for Elementary/Ubuntu users, double click on the launch shell, eg: bin/webstorm.sh, seems doesn't load the bashrc settings at all, so please make sure start it throw a terminal: open a terminal first, then start the IDE by typing ./webstorm.sh.

I've tested this on Elementary, now all commands executes fine.

[beansoft]

And seems @spitoglou 's solution is the most simple one step:

sudo ln -s ~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb /usr/bin/adb

IDEA's bug can't be fixed by me, so i'd like to let u do a test and close this bug.

[alanpduque]

I tried openning intellij trough console and it really worked fine.
Since I don't want to do that every time, I will use @spitoglou approach to the problem, which worked perfectly too.
Thank you all very much for the help!

[asozcan]

echo "export PATH=\$PATH:/Users/${USER}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/" >> ~/.bash_profile
above works too but you need to do a restart for linux/macos