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Expand Up @@ -105,6 +105,23 @@ considerable; this may take a while (10 minutes or longer, depending on the
speed of your Internet connection). When the download has completed, you will
be prompted to accept Google's Android SDK license.

.. admonition:: I end up with a "PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access denied:" error!

In case your system needs it, the "briefcase create android" command will try to
"Installing Android SDK Command-Line Tools" and you may encounter this error.
It may be the case that the system didn't create the folder of the specific version
you're trying to install and at the same time it's trying to address it.
Check at the path:
"AppData\Local\BeeWare\briefcase\Cache\tools\android_sdk\cmdline-tools\cmdline-tools".
In case the folder with the version number your system is looking for is missing, create it manually.

As an example:
if the error reads
"PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access denied: 'C:\\...\\AppData\\Local\\BeeWare\\briefcase\\Cache\\tools\\android_sdk\\cmdline-tools\\cmdline-tools' ->
'C:\\...\\AppData\\Local\\BeeWare\\briefcase\\Cache\\tools\\android_sdk\\cmdline-tools\\9.0'"
and you can't find the "9.0" folder at that path, just create it and then launch again the
``briefcase create android`` command.

Once this completes, we'll have a
``build\helloworld\android\gradle`` directory in our project, which will contain
an Android project with a Gradle build configuration. This project will contain
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