Automatically accept all SDK licences

AndroidSDK can finally accept licenses.

Go to Android\sdk\tools\bin

yes | sdkmanager --licenses

EDIT:

as pointed out in the comments by @MoOx, on macOS, you can do

yes | sudo ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses

as pointed out in the comments by @pho, @mikebridge and @ Noitidart on Windows, you can do

cmd.exe /C"%ANDROID_HOME%\tools\bin\sdkmanager.bat --licenses"

be sure to install java before

I have encountered this with the alpha5 preview.

Jake Wharton pointed out to me that you can currently use

mkdir -p "$ANDROID_SDK/licenses"echo -e "\n8933bad161af4178b1185d1a37fbf41ea5269c55" > "$ANDROID_SDK/licenses/android-sdk-license"echo -e "\n84831b9409646a918e30573bab4c9c91346d8abd" > "$ANDROID_SDK/licenses/android-sdk-preview-license"

to recreate the current $ANDROID_HOME/license folder on you machine. This would have the same result as the process outlined in the link of the error msg (http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/license).

The hashes are sha1s of the licence text, which I imagine will be periodically updated, so this code will only work for so long :)

And install it manually, but it is the gradle's new feature purpose to do it.

I was surprised at first that this didnt work out of the box, even when I had accepted the licenses for the named components via the android tool, but it was pointed out to me its the SDK manager inside AS that creates the /licenses folder.

I guess that official tools would not want to skip this step for legal reasons.

Rereading the release notes it states

SDK auto-download: Gradle will attempt to download missing SDK packages that a project depends on.

Which does not mean it will work if you have not installed the android tools yet and have already accepted the latest license(s).

EDIT: Saying that, it still does not work on my test gubuntu box until I link the SDK up to AS. CI works fine though - not sure what the difference is...

For the newest Android Studio (2.3) the best way to update/accept all licenses is to run:

cd $ANDROID_HOMEtools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses

you might still need to copy the licence files to other locations based on your setup.