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I am using linux arch. I installed android according to ArchWiki. I uninstalled every skd component and android studio using pacman -Rs. Also, I removed every hidden folder in the home directory that had something to do with android such .android, .gradle, AndroidStudio. But the environment variable ANDROID_HOME is still set and the following command

ps aux | grep 'adb' returns adb -L tcp:5037 fork-server server --reply-fd 4

Where is the environment variable ANDROID_HOME set and what means adb -L tcp:5037 fork-server server --reply-fd 4? Is android not properly uninstalled?

The command adb returns bash: adb: command not found

EDIT:

In a /proc/pid/environ, there are still things like /opt/android-sdk/platform-tools:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/tools/bin

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My system has android-studio, android-tools, and a few other android related packages installed. The variable ANDROID_HOME is not set at all. This leads me to believe that you have manually set it somewhere. Have a look in places like .profile, .bashrc, and friends. If you have no luck you could try something like grep -r 'ANDROID_HOME' ~/ (this is not a good pattern to use due to its inefficiency). There are better ways to do this.

The adb command you are seeing is simply and adb server that has been forked and is thus running in the background, it is listening for TCP connections on port 5037. It is likely just something left over you have forgotten to terminate. It should be fine to just run pkill adb to end this process.

With all of this said, I think it's likely that your android related packages are fully uninstalled. you can check what android packages are installed by using pacman -Qs android. If you are sure you really want to purge all traces of android from your system consider running something like sudo pacman -Rn $(pacman -Qsq android)

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