Wrong Android SDK path is selected

[jfversluis]

When trying to run my project on Android I'm faced with the error below

/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.Android.Sdk.Darwin/33.0.4/tools/Xamarin.Android.Tooling.targets(100,5): error XA5207: Could not find android.jar for API level 33. This means the Android SDK platform for API level 33 is not installed. Either install it in the Android SDK Manager (Tools > Open Android SDK Manager...), or change the Xamarin.Android project to target an API version that is installed. (/Users/jfversluis/Library/Android/Sdk/platforms/android-33/android.jar missing.) [/Users/jfversluis/Source/Maui-toolkit/samples/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Sample/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Sample.csproj::TargetFramework=net7.0-android]

Strange thing is that the exact same project does work from Visual Studio for Mac. When comparing the path that is passed in from this extension and where the Android SDK is installed according to VS for Mac, it seems that there is a mixup there:

Meteor: -p:AndroidSdkDirectory="/Users/jfversluis/Library/Android/Sdk"

VSMac: /Users/jfversluis/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx

Maybe this is not typical for everyone, but maybe it would be good to improve the search path and/or some way to configure the SDK path manually?

[JaneySprings]

Hello! To find the Android SDK, the Meteor extension uses the 'ANDROID_SDK_ROOT' environmental variable value. If this value is not specified, meteor tries to find the Android SDK in the default location defined by Android Studio. https://github.com/JaneySprings/DotNet.Meteor/blob/988fd8b9eac4eb59deb05bd241235d0401de1edc/src/DotNet.Meteor.Shared/Android/PathUtils.cs#L8-L22

In your particular case, you can do any of the following:

• Specify the 'ANDROID_SDK_ROOT' environmental variable.
• Create a tasks.json file in the .vscode folder. Here is the example of this file:

  {
  "version": "2.0.0",
      "tasks": [
          {
              "type": "dotnet-meteor.task",
      "target": "Build",
      "args": [
          "-p:AndroidSdkDirectory=/Users/jfversluis/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx"
      ],
      "problemMatcher": [],
      "label": "dotnet-meteor: Build",
      "group": {
          "kind": "build",
          "isDefault": true
      }
      }
  ]
  }

  P.S. We expect to publish an article about build task customization in the near future. Please stay tuned!

[jfversluis]

Awesome, thanks for the quick responses and fixes/workarounds!

[jfversluis]

I guess this is not so much an issue outside of my environment then and this one can be closed.