Android Studio does not find API 36 or 36.1 system images

Hello there,

I have this flake for running my android project:

{
  description = "Android Mobile Development environment";

  inputs = {
    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
    flake-utils.lib.eachSystem [ "x86_64-linux" ] (system:
      let
        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
          inherit system;
          config.allowUnfree = true;
          config.android_sdk.accept_license = true;
        };
        buildToolsVersion = "35.0.0";
        androidEnv = pkgs.androidenv.override { licenseAccepted = true; };
        androidComposition = pkgs.androidenv.composeAndroidPackages {
          platformToolsVersion = "35.0.2";
          buildToolsVersions = [ buildToolsVersion ];
          minPlatformVersion = "34";
          abiVersions = [ "x86_64" ];
          includeNDK = true;
          includeSystemImages = true;
          systemImageTypes = [ "google_apis" "google_apis_playstore" ];
          includeEmulator = true;
          useGoogleAPIs = true;
          extraLicenses = [
            "android-googletv-license"
            "android-sdk-arm-dbt-license"
            "android-sdk-license"
            "android-sdk-preview-license"
            "google-gdk-license"
            "intel-android-extra-license"
            "intel-android-sysimage-license"
            "mips-android-sysimage-license"
          ];
        };
        androidSdk = androidComposition.androidsdk;
      in {
        devShells.default = with pkgs;
          mkShell rec {
            ANDROID_HOME = "${androidSdk}/libexec/android-sdk";
            ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = "${androidSdk}/libexec/android-sdk";
            ANDROID_NDK_ROOT = "${ANDROID_HOME}/ndk-bundle";
            GRADLE_OPTS =
              "-Dorg.gradle.project.android.aapt2FromMavenOverride=${ANDROID_HOME}/libexec/android-sdk/build-tools/${buildToolsVersion}/aapt2";
            buildInputs = [(android-studio.withSdk androidSdk) androidSdk];
          };
      });
}

Now in Android Studio I do find images for API 35 or 34 when creating virtual devices:

But, for whatever reason it does not find the system images for 36 or 36.1:

I’m in no way an expert so if I’m doing something completely stupid there, please let me know.

Why not set platformVersions = [ "35" "36" ]; in composeAndroidPackages if you want both available?

In my understanding minPlatformVersion = "34" was the same as putting platformVersions = [ "34" "35" "36" "36.1"].

I tested anyway by setting platformVersions = [ "34" "35" "36" ], it does lead to the same issue: I have system images for 34 and 35 but not for 36 sadly.