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Creating symbolic links in Android SDK folder. After Android-Studio resp. IntelliJ will work with Maven and Gradle.
#!/bin/bash
# Author: Tobias Preuss
# Version: 2018-01-05
echo "Creating symbolic links in Android SDK folder"
echo "============================================="
echo
if [ -z "$ANDROID_HOME" ] ; then
echo "Could not find Android SDK. Environment variable ANDROID_HOME is not defined."
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d "$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3" ] ; then
echo "Could not find build-tools folder 27.0.3. Please download the latest version first."
exit 1
fi
echo "Found ANDROID_HOME set to $ANDROID_HOME"
echo
# For IntelliJ and Android-Studio
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/adb $ANDROID_HOME/tools/adb
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3/aapt $ANDROID_HOME/tools/aapt
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3/dx $ANDROID_HOME/tools/dx
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3/zipalign $ANDROID_HOME/tools/zipalign
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3/lib/dx.jar $ANDROID_HOME/tools/dx.jar
# For Gradle
ln -s $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3/lib/dx.jar $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/17.0.0/lib/dx.jar
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mbelsky commented Jul 24, 2014

thanks!

@tarunmahe
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thanks.. it worked like a charm.
Could you explain why the last line for gradle is needed??

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@technohowl In one of the earlier versions of Android Studio an error occurred when dx was not there after Google changed the SDK folder structure. I am not sure if it still needed.

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