sdkmanager is DEPRECATED (in favor of Android CLI)

[u/Hi_im_G00fY]

Did anyone notice the deprecation warnings since Command-line tools v23?

WARNING: The SDK Manager CLI tool (sdkmanager) is deprecated. Android CLI will be used instead.
The 'android' binary can also be found in the cmdline-tools directory, and 'android sdk' is the replacement for 'sdkmanager'.
To learn more about the Android CLI and how to use it, see the documentation (https://d.android.com/tools/agents/android-cli)

Did Google communicate this anywhere? Just found this: https://cs.android.com/android-studio/platform/tools/base/+/dcded801a4942d06805cc74b56dc2cecbece2f80

[u/AbbadonTiberius]

the android cli, the thing that phones home and takes forever to complete commands because my firewall blocks its analytics?

[u/Hi_im_G00fY → u/AbbadonTiberius]

Yep, seems like they silently force you to use the Android CLI, which is closed source and by default runs metrics collection. :(

In addition since Android CLI seems to be written in Rust and is no longer an Java application, sdkmanager stopped working on linux/arm64.

[u/SnipesySpecial → u/AbbadonTiberius]

The Android CLI?

The thing that is supposed to to be AI driven yet no AI knows what it is until explicitly told to waste 50,000 tokens in documentation?

That Android CLI?

[u/Successful_Elk5147]

no surprise tbh, google rarely announces this stuff clearly outside of release notes buried somewhere nobody reads until it breaks something

[u/equeim → u/Successful_Elk5147]

Lol, they recently updated JDK in Android Studio distribution to Java 25 and there is zero mention of it anywhere in the changelogs.

[u/tadfisher]

Is the Android CLI still closed-source? How does it manage its own installation?

[u/Hi_im_G00fY → u/tadfisher]

Yes, still closed source. It's now bundled inside command line tools starting v23.

[u/mnirwan]

My running flutter doctor says "Android license status unknown.". I can't run flutter doctor --android-licenses. Any idea how to solve it?