(MacOS/homebrew) PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

Issue

installed:

 brew cask install android-sdk
 brew cask install android-platform-tools
 brew cask install intel-haxm
 export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="/usr/local/share/android-sdk"

created emulator:

sdkmanager "system-images;android-27;google_apis;x86"
avdmanager create avd -n default --abi google_apis/x86 -k "system-images;android-27;google_apis;x86" -p ~/.android/avd/default

start emulator:

emulator -avd default

The message:

PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value [/usr/local/share/android-sdk]!

this answer mentions platform/platform-tools folders must be in SDK_ROOT.

ls /usr/local/share/android-sdk

emulator licenses patcher system-images tools

What's wrong and why?

Solution

This was the missing part:

sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-27"

That installs the missing parts of SDK. Error message could be better, of course. Also not clear if the line below was even needed.

brew cask install android-platform-tools

Answered By - Alexei Vinogradov