Installing Android SDK cmd line tools for building SDL2 apps..

SDL Development
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I have been trying to install Android Studio on BookWorm64 puppy linux, (to compile SDL2 apps to Android) but its large (8gb) and problematic..

So I decided to setup a new copy of BookWorm64 with just the command line build tools. If you look at:

https://developer.android.com/studio

You will see the linux build tools zip is 160mb. (it downloads more later, but you can be selective)

So with a new bw64+devx, i first install latest java (apt install default-jdk), unzip tools to “/root/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools” then run

  bin/sdkmanager --list

but whatever commands i give, it says
Error: could not determine SDK root.
I have tried
bin/sdkmanager --sdk_root=“/root/Android/Sdk”
and many more, but to no avail. Surely this is the tool to INITIATE the sdk!? There is no sdk root set yet! This is Androids doc on it:
https://developer.android.com/tools/sdkmanager

I have also downloaded the NDK, but have to yet unzipped it, unsure how to set that up. (sdk first?)

Has anyone tried this? Ideas welcome..

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This is the location of sdkmanager on my system (created through Android Studio a long time ago):

~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager

The instructions tell me the directory structure has not changed.

I think the latest directory is missing on your system.