[Solved] SDK location not found. Define a valid SDK location with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable

Error:

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

See https://docs.gradle.org/7.5.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
5 actionable tasks: 5 executed

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> SDK location not found. Define a valid SDK location with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable or by setting the sdk.dir path in your project's local properties file at 'C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\android\local.properties'.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 21s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> SDK location not found. Define a valid SDK location with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable or by setting the sdk.dir path in your project's local properties file at 'C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\android\local.properties'.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 21s

    at makeError (C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
    at C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)
    at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\username\Documents\GitHub\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:142:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

Solution

1. Go to your React-native Project -> Android
2. Create a file local.properties
3. Open the file
4. paste your Android SDK path like below

windows

sdk.dir = C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk

macOS

sdk.dir = /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk

linux

sdk.dir = /home/USERNAME/Android/Sdk

USERNAME with your user name

Now, Run the react-native run-android in your terminal

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