gibadb

A tool to easily install the Android SDK command-line and platform tools.

For developers:
This README describes the CLI tool that ships with this Dart package. For package
documentation, consult the appropriate README.

Features

  • Cross-platform support
    • Windows
    • MacOS
    • Linux
  • Upgradeable platform tools
  • Minimal, but a standard SDK installation (Android Studio compatible)

Obtaining

Binaries can be found in the releases page.

Alternatively, for those with the Dart SDK installed, pub can be used to activate
the package…
 

$ dart pub global activate --source git https://github.com/hacker1024/gibadb.git

The following external tools are required:

  • Java
  • p7zip or unzip (macOS and Linux)
  • PowerShell 5.0+ (Windows)

Usage

  1. Open a terminal (or command prompt)
  2. Run gibadb
  3. Accept any required licenses
  4. Add the required lines to your PATH

Options

$ gibadb --help

Usage: gibadb.dart [options] [SDK installation directory]
Install the Android SDK command-line and platform tools.

If no SDK installation directory is provided, a common, platform-specific location is chosen.
-v, --verbose                                 Show more installation details.
    --[no-]launch-path-settings               Open the system path settings after installation.
                                              (defaults to on)
    --[no-]platform-tools                     Install the SDK platform tools as well as the base SDK command-line tools.
                                              (defaults to on)
-a, --archive=<command-line tools archive>    Use an existing SDK command-line tools archive, instead of downloading one.
    --keep-archive                            Don't delete the SDK command-line tools archive.
-h, --help                                    Show the usage information.

GitHub

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