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DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL:

Currently it is possible to build, from the command line, code which requires on a custom SDK by specifying it as the compileSdk in the build file.

Android Studio, however, fails to support downloading the custom SDK or synchronizing these projects, which means that it is difficult to use it to develop apps which use the APIs which are available to firmware apps, but unavailable in the standard app SDKs.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Create a custom platform SDK and a custom metadata file based on https://dl.google.com/android/repository/repository2-3.xml
2. Place those on a server which isn't hosted in a .google.com domain
3. Notice the site marked as invalid.
4. Install the custom SDK locally by unzipping it
5. Perform a Gradle Sync and watch Android Studio fail.
6. Compile the code with gradlew from the command line
7. Watch it succeed.

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Android Studio log;

2022-07-06 08:18:46,036 [1679818]   WARN - s.RepoProgressIndicatorAdapter - Errors during XML parse:
2022-07-06 08:18:46,036 [1679818]   WARN - s.RepoProgressIndicatorAdapter - unexpected element (uri:"http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/02", local:"sdk-repository"). Expected elements are <{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/01}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/02}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/03}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/01}sdk-sys-img>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/02}sdk-sys-img>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/03}sdk-sys-img>
2022-07-06 08:18:46,036 [1679818]   WARN - s.RepoProgressIndicatorAdapter - javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/02", local:"sdk-repository"). Expected elements are <{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/01}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/02}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/03}sdk-addon>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/01}sdk-sys-img>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/02}sdk-sys-img>,<{http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/03}sdk-sys-img>

The code which limits SDK repositories to Google domains is at; https://cs.android.com/android-studio/platform/tools/base/+/mirror-goog-studio-main:sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/repository/AndroidSdkHandler.java;l=587

Indication that this restriction has been tightened recently is at https://cs.android.com/android-studio/platform/tools/base/+/83c2d739542c77b90079918185cac19ee0f7f7ba



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