There are many reasons for this, sometimes the Google servers are down or there is a conflict with an existing Android SDK. So if you start an Android project and then hit compile you will get a question from the Delphi IDE “Would you like to update the platforms SDK now?” Just click yes and it will then download the Android SDK for you and you can just continue.īut occasionally the install process of Delphi fails to download some of the required Android SDK files from Google. If you forgot that, no worries, the Delphi IDE has an automatic feature to detect missing Android SDK files. If you do that, then you should also check the Eclipse Temurin OpenJDK 11 (Hotspot) JVM, for the Java bits the Android SDK needs.

Now if you did not select it in the install, you can add it later using the Tools – Manage Platforms menu in the Delphi IDE. The Xamarin Android SDK Manager is not compatible with Visual Studio 2015.The Android SDK is an optional feature in the Delphi installation.

Java Development Kit 8 (the JDK 9 is not supported yet inXamarin.Android).

Xamarin for Visual Studio version 4.5.0 or later.

(I’ll suggest you to use the latest version 15.6) Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 or later is required.

Visual Studio 2017 community edition or higher.

So I really suggest you to download it.As stated in the official Xamarin website, the requirements are:

I really don’t know why, but I know that the Xamarin Android SDK Manager is a very good tool. As you know is very important to keep your system updated and this of course is valid for the Android SDK.You should alway use the lasted available Android components.The Official Xamarin Documentation is not very clear on how to configure properly the Android SDK, so here is what you should do to obtain the best from your Xamarin.Android projects.First of all you should really install the Xamarin Android SDK Manager instead of the classic SDK Manager.Probably the most important reason to do so is that since version 25.2.3 of the Android SDK Tools package, Google replaced the UI Manager with a command line utility.

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