Mac ionic fails with Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

Trying to emulate Android device on my Mac 10.14.2 with:

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/me/Library/Android/sdk
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/me/Library/Android/sdk
export ANDROID_AVD_HOME=/Users/me/.android/avd

ionic cordova run --confirm --no-interactive --emulator android

but it fails with:

PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value [/Users/me/Library/Android/sdk]!

All the specified paths are in fact the default paths after installation. I did not change anything. system-images contains images to 5 android versions I installed through android studio.

sdk $ l /Users/me/Library/Android/sdk
build-tools/    extras/         licenses/       platform-tools/ sources/        tools/
emulator/       fonts/          patcher/        platforms/      system-images/


sdk $ l system-images/
android-23/     android-24/     android-25/     android-26/     android-27/     android-28/

Any advice on how to properly fix the failing build?

ionic info

Ionic:

   ionic (Ionic CLI)  : 4.5.0 (/Users/me/node_modules/ionic)
   Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.9.2
   @ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.0

Cordova:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1)
   Cordova Platforms     : android 7.1.4, ios 4.5.5
   Cordova Plugins       : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.0.5, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 1.1.1, (and 9 other plugins)

System:

   ios-deploy : 1.9.4
   NodeJS     : v11.4.0 (/Users/me/.nvm/versions/node/v11.4.0/bin/node)
   npm        : 6.4.1
   OS         : macOS Mojave
   Xcode      : Xcode 10.1 Build version 10B61

Anybody have an idea that could help?