Skipping Android Studio command line tools installation. Ple

Error message

Skipping Android Studio command line tools installation. Please go through the manual setup process described in the documentation: https://tauri.app/start/prerequisites/#android

What it means

While setting up the Android SDK, if `cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager` is missing, the CLI interactively asks permission to download the Android Studio command line tools. This error means the prompt was declined (default answer is No, and a non-TTY stdin makes unwrap_or_default() return false), so setup aborts and points you to the manual prerequisite documentation.

Source

Thrown at crates/tauri-cli/src/mobile/android/mod.rs:550

      } else {
        std::env::current_dir().context("failed to get current directory")?
      };

      let sdk_manager_path = extract_path
        .join("cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager")
        .with_extension(if cfg!(windows) { "bat" } else { "" });

      let mut granted_permission_to_install = false;

      if !sdk_manager_path.exists() {
        granted_permission_to_install = crate::helpers::prompts::confirm(
          "Do you want to install the Android Studio command line tools to setup the Android SDK?",
          Some(false),
        )
        .unwrap_or_default();

        if !granted_permission_to_install {
          crate::error::bail!("Skipping Android Studio command line tools installation. Please go through the manual setup process described in the documentation: https://tauri.app/start/prerequisites/#android");
        }

        download_cmdline_tools(&extract_path)?;
      }

      if !granted_permission_to_install {
        granted_permission_to_install = crate::helpers::prompts::confirm(
          "Do you want to install the Android SDK using the command line tools?",
          Some(false),
        )
        .unwrap_or_default();

        if !granted_permission_to_install {
          crate::error::bail!("Skipping Android Studio SDK installation. Please go through the manual setup process described in the documentation: https://tauri.app/start/prerequisites/#android");
        }
      }

      log::info!("Running sdkmanager to install platform-tools, android-{SDK_VERSION} and ndk-{NDK_VERSION} on {}...", default_android_home.display());

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Solutions

Rerun the command and answer 'y' to 'Do you want to install the Android Studio command line tools...?'
Manually install cmdline-tools: download the zip from developer.android.com, unzip to $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest, then rerun
Install cmdline-tools via Android Studio > SDK Manager > SDK Tools > 'Android SDK Command-line Tools'
Set ANDROID_HOME to an SDK that already contains cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager

Example fix

# before
$ tauri android dev
? Do you want to install the Android Studio command line tools...? No
error: Skipping Android Studio command line tools installation...
# after
$ tauri android dev
? Do you want to install the Android Studio command line tools...? Yes
# or manual: place sdkmanager at $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager

Defensive patterns

Strategy: fallback

Validate before calling

# skip the prompt entirely by pre-providing the tool:
test -x "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager" || \
  echo 'cmdline-tools missing - tauri will prompt; install them first'

Prevention

Pre-install cmdline-tools (unzip to $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest) before first `tauri android` run
Answer 'y' to bootstrap prompts or avoid non-TTY contexts when you want the automatic setup
Script the SDK bootstrap once, cache it, and stop hitting the prompt

When it happens

Trigger: `tauri android init`/`dev`/`build` on a machine whose SDK lacks cmdline-tools, with the confirm prompt answered 'n' — or run in a context without a TTY where the prompt defaults to No.

Common situations: Developers who want to control toolchain installs manually; CI pipelines that accidentally reach the interactive branch; SDKs installed only through Android Studio's GUI (which does not always place cmdline-tools).

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of tauri-apps/tauri@52e4b6e71d (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/655a95022ae5e2ca. Report an issue: GitHub.