android target not installed with a gibberish message

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i am confused as you are

[breautek]

The output comes from the avdmanager executable I believe, so it must be returning non-textual characters/data in it's stdout/stderr.

Does the same occur if you use Command Prompt?

It might be caused by having JDK 24 installed. Android SDK can be picky on the JDK and the ideal version is 17.

Another thing you can check is to ensure that %ANDROID_HOME%/tools IS NOT in your path. This is the legacy and obsolete command line tools and it requires JDK 8 to use. These tools and JDK 8 is not compatible with modern Android SDK versions. You can have JDK 17 installed along with JDK 24 by using CORDOVA_JAVA_HOME system variable to point to the JDK 17 install.

The modern command line tools comes from the Android SDK Command-line Tools package, and I'd recommend installing version 19.0 and add %ANDROID_HOME%/cmdline-tools/19.0/bin in your PATH system variable. Alternatively you can also install the latest version as well, so you can update the package without needing to update your PATH variable.

Full documentation can be found at: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/dev/guide/platforms/android/index.html

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should i just uninstall jdk 24 in favor of 17?

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frankly this is fatigue inducing and even done by documentation it still refuses to work outright, i am going to reinstall everything on vm later

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is this bs happening because system cannot "see" commandline sdk i've got from android studio or it cannot "see" mobile image while also there's already one i've downloaded and ran before from studio too?

[erisu]

The error seems to suggest that it cant find the avdmanager binary. avdmanager should be located in cmdline-tools/latest/bin/, which I see in your screenshot for your PATH variables.

Locally, I have these defined in my "User variables" PATH, not System variables.

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do i just copypaste everything from system's to user's?

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wiped everything from path's but system's variables, punched in mine's instead of that pre-defined by installers, now to check if it actually works