All packages from the Android SDK repository, packaged with Nix.
Updated daily from Google's Android SDK repositories.
Currently we support the following platforms:
aarch64-darwin: MacOS on Apple Siliconx86_64-darwin: MacOS on x86-64x86_64-linux: Linux on x86-64
You should have nix installed, either because your're awesome and run NixOS, or you have installed
it from nixos.org.
If you're not using flakes, Nix channel is provided which contains stable,
beta, preview, and canary releases of the Android SDK package set.
nix-channel --add https://tadfisher.github.io/android-nixpkgs android-nixpkgs
nix-channel --update android-nixpkgsThe sdk function is provided to easily compose a selection of packages into a usable Android SDK
installation.
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
with pkgs;
let
android-nixpkgs = callPackage <android-nixpkgs> {
# Default; can also choose "beta", "preview", or "canary".
channel = "stable";
};
in
android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
cmdline-tools-latest
build-tools-34-0-0
platform-tools
platforms-android-34
emulator
])If you save this in something like sdk.nix, you can get a dev environment with nix-shell. This
will result in ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT being set in your environment.
nix-shell sdk.nixHere's an example shell.nix which includes Android Studio from Nixpkgs and a working SDK.
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
with pkgs;
let
android-nixpkgs = callPackage <android-nixpkgs> { };
android-sdk = android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
cmdline-tools-latest
build-tools-34-0-0
platform-tools
platforms-android-34
emulator
]);
in
mkShell {
buildInputs = [
android-studio
android-sdk
];
}If you don't want to set up a channel, and you don't use Nix flakes, you can import
android-nixpkgs using builtins.fetchGit:
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
with pkgs;
let
android-nixpkgs = callPackage (import (builtins.fetchGit {
url = "https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs.git";
})) {
# Default; can also choose "beta", "preview", or "canary".
channel = "stable";
};
in
android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
cmdline-tools-latest
build-tools-34-0-0
platform-tools
platforms-android-34
emulator
])If you live on the bleeding edge, you may be using Nix Flakes.
This repository can be used as an input to your project's flake.nix to provide an immutable SDK
for building Android apps or libraries.
{
description = "My Android app";
inputs = {
android-nixpkgs = {
url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs";
# The main branch follows the "canary" channel of the Android SDK
# repository. Use another android-nixpkgs branch to explicitly
# track an SDK release channel.
#
# url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/stable";
# url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/beta";
# url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/preview";
# url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/canary";
# If you have nixpkgs as an input, this will replace the "nixpkgs" input
# for the "android" flake.
#
# inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};
outputs = { self, android-nixpkgs }: {
packages.x86_64-linux.android-sdk = android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
cmdline-tools-latest
build-tools-34-0-0
platform-tools
platforms-android-34
emulator
]);
};
}A project template is provided via templates.android. This also provides a devShell with a configured Android SDK; on Linux platforms, Android Studio is also provided.
nix flake init -t github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs
nix develop
android-studio # available on x86_64-linux platforms
See flake.nix in the generated project to customize the SDK and Android Studio version.
A Home Manager module is provided to manage an Android SDK installation for the user profile. Usage depends on whether you are using Home Manager via flakes.
In home.nix:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
let
androidSdkModule = import ((builtins.fetchGit {
url = "https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs.git";
ref = "main"; # Or "stable", "beta", "preview", "canary"
}) + "/hm-module.nix");
in
{
imports = [ androidSdkModule ];
android-sdk.enable = true;
# Optional; default path is "~/.local/share/android".
android-sdk.path = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.android/sdk";
android-sdk.packages = sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
build-tools-34-0-0
cmdline-tools-latest
emulator
platforms-android-34
sources-android-34
];
}An example flake.nix:
{
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
home-manager = {
url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
android-nixpkgs = {
url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager, android-nixpkgs }: {
nixosConfigurations.x86_64-linux.myhostname = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
system = "x86_64-linux";
modules = [
home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
{
home-manager.users.myusername = { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: {
imports = [
android-nixpkgs.hmModule
{
inherit config lib pkgs;
android-sdk.enable = true;
# Optional; default path is "~/.local/share/android".
android-sdk.path = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.android/sdk";
android-sdk.packages = sdk: with sdk; [
build-tools-34-0-0
cmdline-tools-latest
emulator
platforms-android-34
sources-android-34
];
}
];
};
}
];
};
};
}Unfortunately, this is a little rough using stable Nix, but here's a one-liner.
nix-instantiate --eval -E "with (import <android> { }); builtins.attrNames packages.stable" --json | jq '.[]'
nix flake show github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs
Android Studio is using the wrong SDK installation directory.
Unfortunately, Android Studio persists the configuration for android.sdk.path in several
locations:
- In
local.propertieswithin the project. This is regenerated whenever syncing with the build system. A possible way to prevent this (and avoid the following steps) is to remove thesdk.dirproperty and set the file read-only withchmod -w local.properties. - In
~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio{Version}/options/jdk.table.xml. Search for the string "Android SDK" and remove the entire surrounding<jdk>element. - In the workspace configuration, which may live in
.idea/workspace.xmlin the project, or in~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio{Version}/workspace/{hash}.xml. Search for the string "android.sdk.path" and remove the element.
A method to configure Android Studio (and IntelliJ IDEA) via Nix would be cool, but also a tedious endeavor.
The SDK Manager complains about a read-only SDK directory.
This is fine; you cannot install packages via the SDK Manager to a Nix-built SDK, because the point of this project is to make your build dependencies immutable. Either update your Nix expression to include the additional packages, or switch to using a standard Android SDK install.
When using a standard installation downloaded from the Android Developers site, if you're running
NixOS then you may have to run patchelf to set the ELF interpreter for binaries referencing
standard paths for the system linker. The binaries may work inside Android Studio built from
nixpkgs, as it runs in a FHS-compliant chroot.
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