Ubuntu – How to install Android Studio on Ubuntu

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Please tell me the full process of installing Android Studio and its necessary dependencies.

Best Answer

Installing Java

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

After that

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

Note: WebUpd8 team's PPA has been discontinued with effective from April 16, 2019. Thus this PPA doesn't have any Java files. More information can be found on PPA's page on Launchpad. Hence this method no longer works and exists because of historical reasons.

Installing Android Studio

  1. Download Android Studio from here, use All Android Studio Packages

  2. Extract the archive file into an appropriate location for your applications, eg: /opt. Use the filename of your downloaded archive, in my example android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux.zip

    sudo unzip android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux.zip -d /opt

  3. To launch Android Studio, navigate to the /opt/android-studio/bin directory in a terminal and execute ./studio.sh. Or use a desktop file, see below.

    You may want to add /opt/android-studio/bin to your PATH environmental variable so that you can start Android Studio from any directory.

Create a desktop file

Create a new file androidstudio.desktop by running the command:

nano ~/.local/share/applications/androidstudio.desktop

and add the lines below

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Android Studio
Exec="/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f
Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=android-studio

Installing Android SDK (if necessary)

  1. Click the marked button

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  2. Get the latest SDK tools

    As a minimum when setting up the Android SDK, you should download the latest tools and Android platform:

    1. Open the Tools directory and select:

      • Android SDK Tools
      • Android SDK Platform-tools
      • Android SDK Build-tools (highest version)

    2. Open the first Android X.X folder (the latest version) and select:

      • SDK Platform
      • A system image for the emulator, such as ARM EABI v7a System Image

  3. Get the support library for additional APIs

    The Android Support Library provides an extended set of APIs that are compatible with most versions of Android.

    Open the Extras directory and select:

    • Android Support Repository
    • Android Support Library

  4. Get Google Play services for even more APIs

    To develop with Google APIs, you need the Google Play services package:

    Open the Extras directory and select:

    • Google Repository
    • Google Play services

  5. Install the packages

    Once you've selected all the desired packages, continue to install:

    • Click Install X packages.
    • In the next window, double-click each package name on the left to accept the license agreement for each.
    • Click Install.
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