Getting started: `skip android emulator create` fails
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Start with the linked Getting Started page and review the Android setup instructions around skip android emulator create. Verify the prerequisite for sdkmanager and update the instructions so a fresh setup can run the command successfully; done means the documented setup covers the reported failure.
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Description
I have followed the instructions in Getting Started and installed Android Studio, but
skip android emulator create
results in:
[✗] Configure Android SDK Manager (0.01s)
[✗] Command failed with exit code 127
[✗] Create Android emulator failed with 2 errors
See https://skip.dev/docs/faq and https://forums.skip.dev for help
See output log for error details: /tmp/skip-create-2026-02-14T10:56:41Z.txt
Error: 2 errors
The logged error is:
executing command: /bin/sh -c yes | sdkmanager --licenses
/bin/sh: sdkmanager: command not found
Apparently, those instructions assume that sdkmanager is available, but afaict that would require installing Android command-line tools, not just Android Studio. I think that the documentation needs to be updated.
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