Setting up Android SDK on Mac OS X 11 El Capitan

[Sebastien Nouat]

On 27/11/2015 13:02, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
> Having foolishly updated my machine to 10.11, I've doubled down by 
> deciding to take another look at Android, for the first time in many 
> years.
>
> I installed the Android SDK 'shell', and then ran it to install the 
> tools, and immediately said (three times)
>     No Java runtime present, requesting install.
>
> which caused a dialog to appear
>     To use the "Java" command-line tool you need to install a JDK.
>      Click "More info..." to visit the Java Developer's Kit download
>     website.
>
> I went through that dance, and installed Java 8, confirmed it was 
> running etc; this made no difference to the android tools. Rebooted, 
> same issue.
>
> Googling locates a lot of people who have that dialog but are only 
> looking to get rid of it, not to actually have Java working. (It also 
> located an Apple page to install the "legacy" Java 6 for Mac.)
>
> What is the cure for this? Do I need to install the legacy Java 6?  Do 
> I need to "Disable Rootless System Integrity Protection", even though 
> Java thinks it's already running fine?  Or is just not possible to 
> install the Android SDK on El Capitan?
Yes, you need to install the Java 6 to allow Android deployment (that 
should probably be stated in a cleared way in the error message).
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben
>
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Sébastien Nouat
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