Android Emulator: PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value
Published 2018-11-16, 17:38
Debugging and fixing a broken Android SDK setup is always „fun“ – especially on a CI environment where you don’t control the actual installation.
It gets worse when all the StackOverflow answers and other Google results for the error you are getting are basically „I executed some slightly related, but otherwise random commands, and after that it worked“.
In my specific case I was getting this error message when trying to start an Android Emulator:
PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT valueIt was really hard to find out what „AVD system path“ actually meant and how my ANRDOID_SDK_ROOT could be connected to that.
So to maybe make this search a bit easier for future people having this problem, I write a solution down here:
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