How to accept android licenses after installing Tools for Cordova using Visual Studio 2017 - visual-studio-2017

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I installed Visual Studio 2017 with the "Mobile development with JavaScript" option and "Android SDK setup" selected.
When I check Tools->Options->Tools for Apache Cordova->Environment Variable Overrides I can see that ANDROID_HOME has been set to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25"
When I try to build my project I get an error:
cordova-build error : > You have not accepted the license agreements
of the following SDK components: cordova-build error : [Android SDK
Platform 25].
I open a Windows command prompt and go to the directory containing the sdkmanager:
cd C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25\tools\bin
I try sdkmanager --licenses but that results in
Error: Unknown argument --licenses
So I try sdkmanager --update and that results in
Warning: An error occurred during installation: Failed to move away or
delete existing target file:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25\tools Move it away manually and
try again.
So I move up to the folder above the tools folder and rename it:
ren tools tools.old
then try the update again:
tools.old\bin\sdkmanager --update
this gave me a warning:
Warning: Observed package id 'tools' in inconsistent location
'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25\tools.old' (Expected
'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25\tools')
But after a lengthy wait the command reported that it was done and I could see that there was a new "tools" folder.
I tried to build my project again. Now my error is:
Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update
your Android SDK.
Looked here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\AndroidSDK\25\tools\templates\gradle\wrapper
References:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/47305199/150342
https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/sdkmanager.html
You have not accepted the license agreements of the following SDK components