Set up the ANDROID_HOME environment variable on MacOS

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I am having trouble setting the Android_Home variable on my MacOS. I have the MacBook Pro 2016 edition. Can't seem to find .profile. I tried to create it but looks like it didn't take. Any thoughts?

Thanks. -Nathan

Possible duplicate of [Setting ANDROID\_HOME enviromental variable on Mac OS X](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19986214/setting-android-home-enviromental-variable-on-mac-os-x) — lwinkyawmyat, Apr 29 '17 at 07:12

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '17 at 03:05

The file is called .bash_profile and can be found in your home directory (/Users/<username>)

To add your ANDROID_HOME environment variable there, you would need to add the following line to your .bash_profile

export ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/android/sdk

To apply the changes, restart your terminal. Confirm that the changes have been applied by typing the following in your terminal:

echo $ANDROID_HOME

Your output should be /path/to/android/sdk as entered above.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '17 at 04:33

These line should be add to your Shell Initialization Files：

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/{YourUserName}/Library/Android/sdk
export ANDROID_NDK=$ANDROID_HOME/ndk-bundle

If you are using bash (by default), you should add these lines to your ~.bash_profile or ~.bashrc
If you are using zsh, you should add these lines to your ~/.zshrc

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 30 '21 at 13:54

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Old school way to check if .bash_profile file exists following could be done:

Go to Finder>Go>COMPUTER>Mac HD>Users, THEN click on your user account.

Now hold down ⌘ + ⇧ + ., this will now display hidden files and folders. It will look something like this:

In case the ⌘ + ⇧ + . does not work, please look up the keyboard shortcut relevant for your Mac Operating system name.

edited Jan 30 '21 at 13:54

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 23 '22 at 11:40

If you are setting up the ANDROID_HOME environment variable on macOS Catalina, .bash_profile is no longer Apple's default shell, and it won't persist your path variables. Use .zprofile instead and follow the environment setup instructions in react-native documentation or others. .bash_profile will keep creating new file which won't make the path permanent or persist on closing the terminal on your system path.

To create a new path just do this in macOS Big Sur:

sudo touch ~/.zshrc
sudo nano ~/.zshrc
export all the path
ctrl + x and save
source ~/.zshrc
Check with echo $PATH

Set up the ANDROID_HOME environment variable on MacOS

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