Building AOSP on Mac: Could not find a supported mac sdk: ["10.10" "10.11" "10.12"]

To build Android on MacBookPro High Sierra, I had to overcome few obstacles.

I looked up the MacOS SDK version, I am currently running:

$ ls /Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/
MacOSX.sdk  

MacOSX10.13.sdk

$ edit build/soong/cc/config/x86_darwin_host.go

Then changed build/soong/cc/config/x86_darwin_host.go to:

line 92, add "10.13",

 darwinSupportedSdkVersions = []string{
  "10.10",
  "10.11",
  "10.12",
  "10.13",
 }

Also, tried previous SDKs:

$ cd /Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs

$ git clone https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs.git

copy directories into:


/Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs

uki 10:44 SDKs $ list

MacOSX.sdk/

MacOSX10.11.sdk/

MacOSX10.12.sdk/

MacOSX10.13.sdk

uki 10:44 SDKs $

Why developers should use Google Nexus / Pixel devices

It is January 2018. I sitting in front of two 2017 FLAGSHIP phones from Huawei and Samsung and the sample code app that I am trying will not run on neither of them (Android 7, API 24), but it does run on the Google Pixel C tablet that is 3 years old and discontinued but has been already updated to Android 8, API 26.

This really teaches me a lesson, get Pixel phone as a next phone.