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Life goes on and so does my Android development. Here is a solution for a common problem when Maven struggles to find the Android SDK. The error message that occurs:

No Android SDK path could be found.

You should create a settings.xml file in your ~.m2/ folder. (~/.m2/settings.xml). The file should contain the following content:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>android</id>
        <properties>
          <android.sdk.path>
            PATH / TO / THE / ANDROID / SDK
          </android.sdk.path>
        </properties>
	  </profile>
    </profiles>
	<activeProfiles> <!--make the profile active all the time -->
      <activeProfile>android</activeProfile>
	</activeProfiles>
</settings>

Replace the “PATH / TO..” with the path of your Android SDK folder. Read more over here.