The main reason you want to know what a helper does is in case one of the packages (or it’s dependencies) break in the AUR. Of all the various helpers out there, at the moment I recommend pacaur, although it’s been deprecated for over 6 months now, it’s the helper that provides pacman style syntax and functionally acts as a drop-in replacement for pacman (you can replace any guide that tells you to do “sudo pacman” somewhere with simply “pacaur”. Here is a great place to get you started. In fact, if you’re not familiar with how Arch Linux packaging works, it might even be preferable to not use one, as learning what the various helpers do is a rather essential part of using the AUR. Okay so before I continue any further, you can do this entire installation without using a helper. No you do that weekly instead.) Step 0: Get an AUR helper So here’s a quick guide on how to get the Android SDK working under Arch based distros (Arch based since Manjaro is basically Arch without the pathological need to -Syu daily. As I’m using Manjaro, I was trying to set up the Android SDK packages in the AUR, before quickly running into some issues. Disregarding the fact that I’m using typescript (think javascript but somehow more annoying to use), today I had to build my application into an APK. I for the past few months have been using the program Ionic to make an application. Getting the Android SDK working under Arch Linux
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