Why is the Android AVD Manager missing when using Android SDK in Intellij?

Issue

I am trying to use the Android SDK in my IntelliJ project that is a larger project containing both web and ios clients as well as a server side (Thus that is why I'm not using Android Studio). I have installed on the Android SDK on my mac OSX machine. I ran the SDK Manager and installed Android 6.0 (API 23) as well as Android SDK Tools 25.1.7, Android SDK Platform-tools 23.1, and Android SDK Build-tools 23.0.1-24. I've also set up the Android SDK in my IntelliJ Project Structure. However, the Tools menu does not show the AVD Manager. This results in me being unable to select an emulator AVD when I create an Android Application Run/Debug Configuration. Specifically, the "Prefer Android Virtual Device" says "Unknown AVD" and there are no other options in that drop down and the "..." button is greyed out. How can I gain access to the AVD Manager without using Android Studio and simply using IntelliJ with the Android SDK installed? (Also, as you can see from the picture, my module is not specified, but that I believe is a separate issue)

Solution

The answer to this for me (after I had followed all other steps to getting the proper SDKs installed) was simply the following:
In Intellij, File > open. Open the build.gradle file in the root level of the android project directory. In the popup that displays, select Open as Project. Then select your desired options in the dialog that appears. In short, the Android SDK Manager is only available when you've opened a project as an Android project.

Answered By - caitcoo0odes