Android SDK path is not saved in preferences.

[SalmaneKhalili]

Most appropriate sub-area of Processing 4?

I'm not sure

Processing version

4.5.2

Operating system

Linux

Bug description

Once you download the android SDK, you expect it to be saved, but it is not, every time I switch to android mode, it is once again asking me to download/select path.

Steps to reproduce this

1. Switch to android mode
2. Download the SDK
3. Close the app and reopen it
4. switch to android mode
5. youll notice the path has not been persisted and youre tasked to redownload/direct to path.

snippet

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void draw() {

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Additional context

androidsdk.mp4

Would you like to work on the issue?

Nope, just reporting for now.

[renu-123-pixel]

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[SableRaf]

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[varun-ai69]

@SableRaf Hi, I’d like to work on this issue.

While looking into the problem, I found that the Android SDK path is saved correctly when a user selects an existing SDK through the locate() flow. However, when the SDK is downloaded via the IDE, the path doesn’t seem to be saved in preferences. Because of this, after restarting Processing and switching back to Android mode, the IDE prompts the user to download or select the SDK path again.

From my review of the code, it looks like the process for downloading and setting up the Android SDK is in the Android mode plugin, which is kept in the processing-android repository. Specifically, the relevant code is in mode/src/processing/mode/android/AndroidSDK.java, where the download(...) method fails to save the SDK path in preferences after a successful download.

My plan is to look into this process further and add the necessary update to preferences so that the SDK path is saved after the download finishes.

Please let me know if this approach seems right and if I can be assigned to fix it.

Thanks!