Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Android Studio is an Android development environment created by Google, similar to Eclipse, providing tools for both development and debugging.
The latest version available is Android Studio 0.8.12, which has been recently released. For more information, see this page.
In this article I will show you how to install Android Studio 2.0 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Android Studio 0.8.12 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the android-studio package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paolorotolo/android-studio
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install android-studio
Now that Android Studio has been successfully installed, we have to install the latest Android SDK, in order to start creating Android applications.
$ cd ~
$ wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r23.0.2-linux.tgz
$ tar -xzvf android-sdk_r23.0.2-linux.tgz
$ cd android-sdk-linux/tools
$ ./android
Next, click Install X Packages, thick Accept License and press install
To launch the Android virtual device manager, open a terminal, type android avd and hit enter.
Next, add ~/android-sdk-linux/tools and ~/android-sdk-linux/plarform-tools
$ echo "export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc
Optional, to remove android studio and android sdk, do:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ rm -r ~/android-sdk-linux
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