Android SDK Manager complains with "Loading SDK component information failed."

user_2393559 0
Viewed 3463

I would like to build mobile apps using Xamarin and Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise (15.8.4). I therefor followed Microsofts documentation on installing the whole stack. I choose the Mobile Development with .NET workload from the installer, expecting it to pull in all the necessary dependencies.

Unfortunately when I try to launch the Android SDK Manager from within Visual Studio i get Loading SDK component information failed. Please retry.

enter image description here

According to the documentation the VS installer should install AndroidNDK to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidNDK64. This folder is available, but empty.

However I found the folder C:\Microsoft\AndroidNDK64 on my filesystem containing android-ndk-r13b and android-ndk-r15c. I tried pointing to one of this directory from VS Tools -> Options -> Xamarin -> Android NDK Location without a change to my aforementioned problem.

enter image description here

The following packages are installed:

[Section Emulators]

  • Google Android-Emulator (API-Level 27)
  • Intel Hardware Accel Exec Manager (HAXM) (global installation)

[Development Activies]

  • F# Language Support
  • Xamarin
  • Xamarin Profiler
  • Xamarin Remoted Simulator
  • Xaramin Workbooks

[SDKs, Libs and frameworks]

  • Android NDK (R13B)
  • Android NDK (R15C)
  • Android SDK-Setup (API-Level 27)
  • JDK (8.0.1120.15)

What am I doing wrong here? Is there any package missing?

[Edit1]

  • Please note: I am not behind a company firewall/proxy, so network should be no issue
  • The same happens when switching to the Google Repository
  • Launching Visual Studio as local Administrator makes no difference
  • Also repairing Visual Studio did not solve the issue..

[Edit2]

  • Also I can't start the Android Device Manager. Nor from VS nor directly from the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Xamarin\AndroidDeviceManager - yes, tried as local administrator... what the heck

[Edit3]

  • I just found out by accident, that when running AndroidSdkManager.exe non evaluated it works!!! So there must be some permission issue, maybe NTFS rights. Will check and report back.
visual-studio-2017 xamarin android
1 Answers

Changing the repository settings to Google worked for me. So, on android SDK manager click on the gear icon (settings), then Repository -> Google.

@Alexandr Zarubkin- Thanks for the input it helped me.

user_33552570
Related