Installing Android Studio on Linux | Intro to Android Studio - Part 1

In this tutorial we are going to see what is Android Studio and how to install it in Ubuntu.

        Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ Idea. If you are interested in developing Android apps then Android Studio is the one stop solution. It provides every thing you need to develop Android Apps. It provides powerful text editor, emulator, sdk manager etc. You can use Java, Kotlin, C++ for developing Android Apps. For more introduction visit Official Android Studio Intro.

        Now lets see how to install it on Linux step by step.

        For this tutorial I am using Ubuntu 17.10 with budgie desktop.

        First visit Android Studio download page and download the android studio zip file. Here is the direct link for version 3.0.1 which is the latest version at the time of writing: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/3.0.1.0/android-studio-ide-171.4443003-linux.zip.

        Before install Android Studio you have to install the following packages on Ubuntu:

        sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386

        And on Fedora systems you need to install these following packages.

        sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686

        Extract the downloaded file. Inside it you will find android-studio folder. Move this folder to your preferred place, eg /opt. Open bin folder inside android-studio. Inside it there will be a script called studio.sh. Open Terminal in that directory and launch the script by executing ./studio.sh

        The Android Studio will be launched to show the Installation wizard.
        Click Next.

        Select Standard setup then click Next.

        Select your Theme and click Next. You can also change it later from Settings menu.

        If you want to change you default Sdk Location, for example /opt, the you have to select Custom setup.
        Then click Next, it will show about Virtual Machine Accelerationsupport for Android Emulator.
        Again click Next to start download.
        Once the download is finished click Finish.

        Congratulations, you have successfully installed Android Studio!

        To create a Desktop Icon, select Configure and then select Create Desktop Entry. If you need to install for all users make sure everyone have access to you installation folder. Enter your password if asked. The Desktop Entry will be created.

        In next post We will see how to use Android Studio and how to create a simple Android App.

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