Introduction

While setting up React Native with expo, one may encounter this error when attempting to start the application with npm start android. This is usually as a result of incomplete or inexistent Android SDK:

Here are 2 ways to resolve this:

  1. Set up Android SDK (missing installation)

Set up Android SDK by following the official Android Developer Docs

In other cases, this could be as a result of incomplete Android setup by failing to add ANDROID_HOME to your environment which can be resolved as follows:

  1. Set ANDROID_HOME path correctly(incomplete installation)

  2. Open .bashrc:

code ~/.bashrc
  1. Set ANDROID_HOME and SDK path as follows, append to your ~/.bashrc file:
export ANDROID_HOME=${HOME}/Android/Sdk
export PATH=${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:${PATH}
export PATH=${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator:${PATH}
export PATH=${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools:${PATH}

This resolves the error by updating you environment with the correct path of installation of Android sdk, tools, emulator etc.

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