Add skip android home install command#200
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This command will ensure that cmdline-tools is installed in `$ANDROID_HOME`, which will be `~/Library/Android/sdk` on macOS by default. This works with or without Android Studio installed, creating the directory if it doesn't exist yet. If cmdline-tools are not installed, we can "bootstrap" them by running _any_ `sdkmanager` we can find. Our Homebrew cask installs `android-commandlinetools`, which installs its own Android SDK (probably _not_ the one the user wants to use). We can use that to run `sdkmanager --sdk_root=$ANDROID_HOME "cmdline-tools;latest"` to install the command line tools into Android Studio's SDK; then we can use the cmdline-tools in `$ANDROID_HOME`.
1. We now use the new `ensureCmdlineTools` function from `skip android home install` 2. We ask `emulator` for the list of AVDs, skipping creating the AVD if it already exists. (Despite the claim of `--force`, in my experiments, I found that it wasn't able to overwrite an existing AVD, e.g. to change the system_image.) 3. If there's no existing emulator with that name, we can finally create the emulator with a known-good `avdmanager` in `ANDROID_HOME`'s `cmdline-tools`. Fixes skiptools#187
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This command will ensure that cmdline-tools is installed in
$ANDROID_HOME, which will be~/Library/Android/sdkon macOS by default. This works with or without Android Studio installed, creating the directory if it doesn't exist yet.If cmdline-tools are not installed, we can "bootstrap" them by running any
sdkmanagerwe can find. Our Homebrew cask installsandroid-commandlinetools, which installs its own Android SDK (probably not the one the user wants to use). We can use that to runsdkmanager --sdk_root=$ANDROID_HOME "cmdline-tools;latest"to install the command line tools into Android Studio's SDK location; then we can use the cmdline-tools in$ANDROID_HOME.I think it would make sense to run
skip android home installas apostflightstep of our Homebrew cask.In addition, this PR updates
skip android emulator createto automatically ensure cmdline-tools are set up if they aren't already. That fixes #187 and #188 (This replaces PR #194, which I closed in favor of this one)I'm not able to fully test this in UTM. What I did:
swiftlyopenjdkgradleandandroid-commandlinetools(the dependencies in https://github.com/skiptools/homebrew-skip/blob/main/Casks/skip.rb)swiftly init --asume-yes --no-modify-profile --skip-installskipstone/scriptsto my$PATH.skip android home install, which workedskip android emulator create, which also workedPATH=~/stonehack/skipstone/scripts:$PATH skipstone/scripts/skip checkupfrom the..directory containingskipstone(to workaround Using a local Skip build requires updatingPackage.swift#190), which also worked/opt/homebrewor in another place Android Studio couldn't see.Skip Pull Request Checklist:
swift test