The SDK directory does not exist (ubuntu 16.04) (react native)

Question

I am trying to run react native project on Ubuntu 16.04 .

The $PATH is correct according to the documentation.

when I echo $PATH , following is shown :

/home/yash/bin:/home/yash/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/yash/.config/composer/vendor/bin:/home/yash/.config/composer/vendor/bin:/root/Android/Sdk/tools:/root/Android/Sdk/platform-tools

The error is shown when running react-native run-android :

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> The SDK directory '/root/Android/Sdk' does not exist.

Answer 1

The /root directory has special permissions that probably prevent react-native from accessing it. You should put the Android SDK in a directory that is readable by your user (e.g. , /home/yash/android).