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Possibility to exclude installation of Android SDK?
Hello, I'm running this action on a self hosted runner where sudo commands are not allowed. I think this is causing my action to fail on the install Android SDK step, even if I'm setting up the SDK beforehand via this action
Install Android SDK
/usr/bin/sh -c \sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/runner/.android/sdk -R
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: No such file or directory
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Terminate Emulator
/home/runner/.android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-55[54](https://github.com/easyparkgroup/ep-android/actions/runs/3531604917/jobs/5924959465#step:6:56) emu kill
error: could not connect to TCP port [55](https://github.com/easyparkgroup/ep-android/actions/runs/3531604917/jobs/5924959465#step:6:57)54: Cannot assign requested address
The process '/home/runner/.android/sdk/platform-tools/adb' failed with exit code 1
Error: The process '/usr/bin/sh' failed with exit code 1
Is it possible to exclude the install android SDK step in this action, or any idea how I can fix my issue?
Thank you!
For the record I solved my problem by just building the apks on my self hosted runner, saved them as artifacts and used the artifacts in a new job using this action. Took the build time down from 80 min -> 13 min.
@TimJonsson I want to implement a similar solution. Can you share your workflow please?
@TimJonsson Did you work around the sudo issue by running everything on your own self-hosted runner (that allows sudo)? I see how building on your own runners would help cut down on the total build time, but I'm not sure how the rest of your solution here fell into place
@shankarRaman @erawhctim Not able to share the workflow but basically yes.
In my workflow I used two jobs.
One job for building the apks on my self hosted runner, saving the apks using actions/upload-artifact@v3.
Then another job using ubunut-latest downloading the apks using actions/download-artifact@v3 and then running the tests on these apks using the android-emulator-runner action.
@TimJonsson were you running your jobs on a non-Mac self hosted runner?