Android: Error when execute sdkmanager

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Quick fix for error that sdkmanager throw exception when trying to call sdkmanager –license and sdkmanager –list.

Error messages

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema
    at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule$SchemaModuleVersion.<init>(SchemaModule.java:156)
    at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule.<init>(SchemaModule.java:75)
    at com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler.<clinit>(AndroidSdkHandler.java:81)
    at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:73)
    at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:185)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
    ... 5 more

Quick fix

In Windows:

  1. Go to C:\Users\Alex.Li\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\bin
  2. Open sdkmanager.bat with editor
  3. Add -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions –add-modules java.se.ee after set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=”-Dcom.android.sdklib.toolsdir=%~dp0..”:
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    set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Dcom.android.sdklib.toolsdir=%~dp0\.." -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions --add-modules java.se.ee

In Linux:

  1. Go to /tools/bin, is the path where you unzip your Android SDK.
  2. Open sdkmanger with editor
  3. Add -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions –add-modules java.se.ee after DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=’”-Dcom.android.sdklib.toolsdir=$APP_HOME”‘“:
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    DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Dcom.android.sdklib.toolsdir=$APP_HOME" -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions --add-modules java.se.ee'