JAVA_HOME error on “ionic build android” - build

Question

I am trying to build an Ionic application with ionic build android with no success. I looked around answers in stackoverflow but I can seem to have the same situation.
I get the following error:
ANDROID_HOME=/Users/myuserID/development/android-sdk-macosx
JAVA_HOME=/Users/myuserID/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk/Co>nten
ts/home
Running:
>/Users/myuserID/development/ionic/keepdoing/platforms/android/gradlew
cdvBuildDebug -b
/Users/myuserID/development/ionic/keepdoing/platforms/android/build.gradle -
Dorg.gradle.daemon=true
ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory:
/Users/myuserID/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk/Contents/hom>e
Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation.
I have everything set in the .bash_profile:
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/myuserID/development/android-sdk-macosx/platform-
tools
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/myuserID/development/android-sdk-macosx/tools
export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/myuserID/development/android-sdk-macosx"
export
JAVA_HOME="/Users/myuserID/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/share/npm/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/npm/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/
export
PATH=$PATH:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk/Contents/home/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk
But can't resolve this. Re-installed the android SDK to no avail.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

A recent update to Android Studio should help anyone landing on this question in 2017! Android Studio 2.2+ comes bundled with a custom OpenJDK build, so there's no need to download a separate JDK.
The following are the adjusted instructions available at https://ionicframework.com/docs/developer-resources/platform-setup/mac-setup.html using the new locations bundled with Android Studio app.
Create and open the .bash_profile file in your favourite text editor:
touch ~/.bash_profile
open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile`
Populate the file with:
export JAVA_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home
export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$PATH
# Set Android_HOME
export ANDROID_HOME=~/Library/Android/sdk/
# Add the Android SDK to the ANDROID_HOME variable
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
#Set GRADLE_HOME
export GRADLE_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-3.2
export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin
Save and close the file, then apply these changes by re-sourcing .bash_profile:
source ~/.bash_profile
You'll then be able to run the ionic commands using the built in tools within Android Studio.

Answer 2

You have an unnecessary double quotes before the java home path in .pash_profile. Remove it.
JAVA_HOME="/Users/myuserID/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_71.jdk

Answer 3

Thanks for all who answered.
Eventually I stumbled on an answer here:
http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-set-java_home-environment-variable-on-mac-os-x/
in essence In Mac OSX 10.5 or later, Apple recommends to set the $JAVA_HOME variable to /usr/libexec/java_home, just export $JAVA_HOME in file ~/. bash_profile or ~/.profile.
Pagugim