Set Up Android Sdk Command Line Tools without Android Studio

Case01: Set Up for the Android Emulator

1. Download the Android SDK Command-Line Tools

2. Install the necessary tools:
   

   # create a directory for the cli-tools, and move the .zip file into the directory
   mkdir android_sdk
   cd android_sdk
   mv <PATH_TO_YOUR_DOWNLOADED_ZIP_FILE> .
   # unzip the downloaded file, and put the contents in the new directory 'latest/'
   unzip commandlinetools-<YOUR_PLATFORM>-8512546_latest.zip
   mkdir cmdline-tools/latest
   cd cmdline-tools/latest
   mv ../* .
   # The hierarchy of the 'android_sdk/':
   └- android_sdk/
    ├- cmdline-tools/
       ├- latest/
          ├- bin/
          ├- lib/
          ├- NOTICE.txt
          └- source.properties
   # Install platform and build tools
   # You can fetch the complete list of available packages via:
   bin/sdkmanager --list
   # Install the desired package and tools via:
   bin/sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-33;google_apis;x86_64"
   # The above command will download and install the tools in the sdk_root (android_sdk/)
   

3. Download and install the Emulator:
   

   bin/sdkmanager --install "emulator" 
   

4. Create a new avd device:
   

   bin/avdmanager create avd -n mytestdevice -k "system-images;android-33;google_apis;x86_64"
   

5. Check if the avd device is available:
   

   # go to the 'emulator/' directory, and run the command
   cd ../../emulator
   ./emulator -list-avds
   # Now you should see your newly created avd device `mytestdevice`
   

6. Run the emulator
   

   ./emulator -avd mytestdevice
   

Case02: Set Up for a real Android Device

1. Go to the official site and download the SDK Platform-Tools

2. Unzip the .zip file. You can find the adb binary within the extracted directory.
   

   cd platform-tools
   # Show every available Android device
   ./adb devices