Meteor: Cannot find the ANDROID_HOME when I try to build via Ubuntu even though I set the correct path

Issue

I try to build my Meteor project for Android. As seen in:

Generate apk file for meteor app

Therefore on my Ubuntu machine I installed the android SDK from: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html Where it says: "Get just the command line tools". The installation path is the /home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/tools containing the following files:

drwxr-xr-x 6 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Ιούλ 19 11:43 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Ιούλ 19 11:43 ../
-rwxr--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas   4741 Μάρ  29 00:46 android*
drwxr-xr-x 2 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Μάρ  29 00:46 bin/
-rwxr--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas 643536 Μάρ  29 00:46 emulator*
-rwxr--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas 394336 Μάρ  29 00:46 emulator-check*
drwxr-xr-x 6 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Μάρ  29 00:46 lib/
-rwxr--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas  12191 Μάρ  29 00:46 mksdcard*
-rwxr--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas   1257 Μάρ  29 00:46 monitor*
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas 629709 Μάρ  29 00:46 NOTICE.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas    919 Ιούλ 19 11:43 package.xml
drwxr-xr-x 7 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Μάρ  29 00:46 proguard/
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcmagas pcmagas    139 Μάρ  29 00:46 source.properties
drwxr-xr-x 2 pcmagas pcmagas   4096 Μάρ  29 00:46 support/

Also I exported the ANDROID_HOME enviromental variable with this value:

echo $ANDROID_HOME
/home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/tools

And PATH variable into this:

export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME

Then I cd my meteor project and I give the following command:

meteor add-platform android

But I get the following error:

✗ Android target: Android SDK not found. Make sure that it is installed. If it is not at the default location, set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable.
✗ Gradle: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK.
  Looked here: /home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/tools/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper

I also tried:

export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/bin"

Still no success.

Edit 1:

Please keep in mind that I have already seen the:

• Error: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK - Android
• Cordova: Android SDK not found. Make sure that it is installed. If it is not at the default location, set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable

Still no success.

Edit 2:

I run:

sdkmanager "build-tools;25.0.3"

And now I get the only error:

✗ Gradle: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK.
  Looked here: /home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/SDK/tools/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper

Furthermore I changed the ANDROID_HOME into/home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/SDK/tools And moved all folders generated by SDK into: /home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/SDK/.

Solution

The ANDROID_HOME environmental variable should link directly to your Android SDK folder, not to its tools subfolder.

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/pcmagas/Λήψεις/SDK

You may still add the tools subfolder (and platform-tools if desired) to your PATH:

PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH"
PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

Answered By - ghybs