mac android sdk is up to date,java - Android Studio - SDK is out of date or is missing templates - S...

I was still hitting this, and figured it was due to something I had misconfigured (which turned out to be the case). The error message is a little confusing, too, because I believe that they are referring to is the version of the ADT tools, not the SDK. For example, the version of Android 4.3 (which is about the latest) is 18.

As of the latest source for Android Studio (which you can clone from here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/adt/idea), that message is generated from NewProjectWizard.java at about line 75 if TemplateManager.templatesAreValid() is false. And it checks that by looking for the existence of the file [rootTemplatesFolder]/gradle/wrapper/gradlew .

It gets the [rootTemplatesFolder] from the SDK(s) you specified in the "Project Structure" settings for default projects. In my case, I had several specified - both the new ones pointing to the sdk directory that's (thankfully) part of the Android Studio, and a few old ones I had somewhere else. I should not have included the old ones at all, but I'm a newb to this and the GUI let me do it. The NewProjectWizard was checking the tools area of that one first, which did not have that file, since the tools version with it was older than version 22.

I had to use dtruss to watch the system calls of Android Studio to see where it was looking for that file, at which point I could tell what my silly problem was.

I have a few more notes on this, including a screenshot of my particular misconfiguration, at http://www.nowherenearithaca.com/2013/08/solved-android-studio-and-your-android.html

Note: It seems you have to restart Android Studio for the "New Project Settings" here to take effect.