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In today's blog post we will discuss about a common error that occurs while building an Android based project in Phone Gap.

Phone gap issue: Android Build fails - "ANDROID_HOME is not set"

1. To get rid of this error you need to install the tools needed to build android applications and configure the environment variables ANDROID_HOME, ANDROID_HOME/tools, and ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools in the correct manner.
   
   

2. From the Android web site, download the correct version of the Android SDK for your operating system.
   
   

3. Unzip the archive to a location of your choosing. For example, on Linux or Mac, you can place it in the root of your user directory.
   
   

4. Configure the ANDROID_HOME environment variable based on the location of the Android SDK. Additionally, add  ANDROID_HOME/tools, andANDROID_HOME/platform-tools to your PATH.
   
   

for Mac OS X :

add the PATH to your .bash_profile

export ANDROID_HOME=/installation location/android-sdk-macosx
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

for Linux

add the PATH to your .bash and .profile

export ANDROID_HOME=/installation location/android-sdk-linux
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

for Windows

add the PATH to My Computer>properties>Advanced system settings> Environment variables

set ANDROID_HOME=C:\installation location\android-sdk-windows
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools