Github user filmaj commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/369
  
    @dpogue thanks for checking! So I think `android_sdk_version` failing in 
this case is kind of expected, as that script, historically, did not do any 
environment checking, and I tried keeping the same behaviour.
    
    The other commands that are part of `Api.js`, like `build` and `clean` and 
`run`, [always call through to 
`check_reqs`](https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/blob/master/bin/templates/cordova/Api.js#L344-L346).
 Part of that functionality in this pull request now [automatically adds the 
new SDK tools to your 
`PATH`](https://github.com/filmaj/cordova-android/blob/CB-12546/bin/templates/cordova/lib/check_reqs.js#L295-L297)
 if they are missing. That's why the `build` command worked for you, but the 
`android_sdk_version` command did not.
    
    We could tweak the behaviour of `android_sdk_version` so that it calls 
through to `check_reqs` as well? This change would fix that command failing in 
your case, and provide more meaningful errors for people who don't have their 
environments configured properly (i.e. will check for missing `ANDROID_HOME`, 
will munge `PATH` based on what kinds of Android tooling it will find, etc.). 
What do you think?
    
    The deeper question that rises out of this is: is `android_sdk_version` 
useful? Is it worth keeping around? It is not part of the platform API and is 
still hanging around due to history more than anything else.
    
    Let me know what y'all think.


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