Time for action – installing Android SDK and NDK on OS X

The Android Studio bundle already contains the Android SDK. Let's install it.

  1. Open your web browser and download the Android Studio bundle from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.
  2. Run the downloaded DMG file. In the window that appears, drag the Android Studio icon into Applications and wait for Android Studio to be fully copied on the system.
    Time for action – installing Android SDK and NDK on OS X
  3. Run Android Studio from Launchpad.

    If an error Unable to find a valid JVM appears (because Android Studio cannot find a suitable JRE when launched), you can run Android Studio from the command line as follows (using the appropriate JDK path):

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