Trying to emulate android from Appcelerator on Windows

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I installed Appcelerator on Windows, am trying to see android output.

I managed to add an android device by downloading - launching an android emulator called Genymotion. Now I have an IP address added to the Run menu, when I activate it Appcelerator tries to launch: console messages appear. But after 1minute or so I get a message saying I should download an SDK API level 23.

I had an old version of Android Studio, I updated it, opened its SDK manager tool and downloaded everything I could find, rebooted, but error persists. I can see Android version 23 in the list.

Here is the error message:

[ERROR] : No valid Android SDK targets found.

[ERROR] : Please download an Android SDK target API level 23 or newer from the Android SDK Manager and try again

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You can use the appcelerator CLI to check you configuration. Try to inspect to output of this command in appc ti info - Himanshu Soni

2 Answers

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I had the same issue recently and it turned out to be the java JDK missing from my path.

Take a close look at the Appcelerator environment variable documentation for windows.

Below are some java directories included in my path on my new Windows 10 machine:

  • C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\java;
  • C:\android-sdk-win\tools;
  • C:\android-sdk-win\platform-tools;
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\bin;

Also, I really suggest using GenyMotion (which I avoided for years) to run your emulators, turns out to be incredibly fast, easy to setup and they have free Basic Version.

Best of luck.

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Now I have an IP address added to the Run menu

Studio should detect Android & Genymotion emulators and allow you to select from a list. No need to enter the IP. If you don't see the emulators, run appc ti info -t android to see if there's any issues that need fixing.