Android Nixpkgs

All packages from the Android SDK repository, packaged with Nix.

Updated daily from Google's Android SDK repositories.

Install

Requirements

Currently we support the following platforms:

• aarch64-darwin: MacOS on Apple Silicon
• x86_64-darwin: MacOS on x86-64
• x86_64-linux: Linux on x86-64

You should have nix installed, either because your're awesome and run NixOS, or you have installed it from nixos.org.

Channel

If you're not using flakes, Nix channel is provided which contains stable, beta, preview, and canary releases of the Android SDK package set.

nix-channel --add https://tadfisher.github.io/android-nixpkgs android-nixpkgs
nix-channel --update android-nixpkgs

The sdk function is provided to easily compose a selection of packages into a usable Android SDK installation.

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:

with pkgs;

let
  android-nixpkgs = callPackage <android-nixpkgs> {
    # Default; can also choose "beta", "preview", or "canary".
    channel = "stable";
  };

in
android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
  cmdline-tools-latest
  build-tools-32-0-0
  platform-tools
  platforms-android-31
  emulator
])

If you save this in something like sdk.nix, you can get a dev environment with nix-shell. This will result in ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT being set in your environment.

nix-shell sdk.nix

Here's an example shell.nix which includes Android Studio from Nixpkgs and a working SDK.

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:

with pkgs;

let
  android-nixpkgs = callPackage <android-nixpkgs> { };

  android-sdk = android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
    cmdline-tools-latest
    build-tools-32-0-0
    platform-tools
    platforms-android-31
    emulator
  ]);

in
mkShell {
  buildInputs = [
    android-studio
    android-sdk
  ];
}

Ad-hoc

If you don't want to set up a channel, and you don't use Nix flakes, you can import android-nixpkgs using builtins.fetchGit:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:

with pkgs;

let
  android-nixpkgs = callPackage (import (builtins.fetchGit {
    url = "https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs.git";
  })) {
    # Default; can also choose "beta", "preview", or "canary".
    channel = "stable";
  };

in
android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
  cmdline-tools-latest
  build-tools-31-0-0
  platform-tools
  platforms-android-31
  emulator
])

Flake

If you live on the bleeding edge, you may be using Nix Flakes. This repository can be used as an input to your project's flake.nix to provide an immutable SDK for building Android apps or libraries.

{
  description = "My Android app";

  inputs = {
    android-nixpkgs = {
      url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs";

      # The main branch follows the "canary" channel of the Android SDK
      # repository. Use another android-nixpkgs branch to explicitly
      # track an SDK release channel.
      #
      # url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/stable";
      # url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/beta";
      # url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/preview";
      # url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs/canary";

      # If you have nixpkgs as an input, this will replace the "nixpkgs" input
      # for the "android" flake.
      #
      # inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };

  outputs = { self, android-nixpkgs }: {
    packages.x86_64-linux.android-sdk = android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
      cmdline-tools-latest
      build-tools-32-0-0
      platform-tools
      platforms-android-31
      emulator
    ]);
  };
}

A project template is provided via templates.android. This also provides a devShell with Android Studio and a configured Android SDK.

nix flake init -t github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs
nix develop
android-studio

See flake.nix in the generated project to customize the SDK and Android Studio version.

Home Manager

A Home Manager module is provided to manage an Android SDK installation for the user profile. Usage depends on whether you are using Home Manager via flakes.

Normal

In home.nix:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

let
  androidSdkModule = import ((builtins.fetchGit {
    url = "https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs.git";
    ref = "main";  # Or "stable", "beta", "preview", "canary"
  }) + "/hm-module.nix");

in
{
  imports = [ androidSdkModule ];

  android-sdk.enable = true;

  # Optional; default path is "~/.local/share/android".
  android-sdk.path = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.android/sdk";

  android-sdk.packages = sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
    build-tools-31-0-0
    cmdline-tools-latest
    emulator
    platforms-android-31
    sources-android-31
  ];
}

Flake

An example flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    android-nixpkgs = {
      url = "github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager, android-nixpkgs }: {

    nixosConfigurations.x86_64-linux.myhostname = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      modules = [
        home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager

        {
          home-manager.users.myusername = { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: {
            imports = [
              android-nixpkgs.hmModule

              {
                inherit config lib pkgs;
                android-sdk.enable = true;

                # Optional; default path is "~/.local/share/android".
                android-sdk.path = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.android/sdk";

                android-sdk.packages = sdk: with sdk; [
                  build-tools-31-0-0
                  cmdline-tools-latest
                  emulator
                  platforms-android-31
                  sources-android-31
                ];
              }
            ];
          };
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}

List SDK packages

Channel

Unfortunately, this is a little rough using stable Nix, but here's a one-liner.

nix-instantiate --eval -E "with (import <android> { }); builtins.attrNames packages.stable" --json | jq '.[]'

Flake

nix flake show github:tadfisher/android-nixpkgs

Troubleshooting

Android Studio is using the wrong SDK installation directory.

Unfortunately, Android Studio persists the configuration for android.sdk.path in several locations:

• In local.properties within the project. This is regenerated whenever syncing with the build system. A possible way to prevent this (and avoid the following steps) is to remove the sdk.dir property and set the file read-only with chmod -w local.properties.
• In ~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio{Version}/options/jdk.table.xml. Search for the string "Android SDK" and remove the entire surrounding <jdk> element.
• In the workspace configuration, which may live in .idea/workspace.xml in the project, or in ~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio{Version}/workspace/{hash}.xml. Search for the string "android.sdk.path" and remove the element.

A method to configure Android Studio (and IntelliJ IDEA) via Nix would be cool, but also a tedious endeavor.

The SDK Manager complains about a read-only SDK directory.

This is fine; you cannot install packages via the SDK Manager to a Nix-built SDK, because the point of this project is to make your build dependencies immutable. Either update your Nix expression to include the additional packages, or switch to using a standard Android SDK install.

When using a standard installation downloaded from the Android Developers site, if you're running NixOS then you may have to run patchelf to set the ELF interpreter for binaries referencing standard paths for the system linker. The binaries may work inside Android Studio built from nixpkgs, as it runs in a FHS-compliant chroot.

License

Licensed under the MIT open-source license. See COPYING for details.