How to install Android studio in Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I have already downloaded the android studio IDE.zip and also downloaded the android SDK.

How do I install it, I'm new to Ubuntu ?

Answer 1

In Ubuntu you can use 2 approvach to install Android Studio First one is use the new Developer tools that Ubuntu Team integrated directly on ubuntu. For that you can follow this manual (is writted by an Ubuntu Team member)

https://paolorotolo.github.io/android-studio/

If you want to use the latest version you can simple unzip the file you already have and run the /bin/studio.sh file. To do that, first check if the file studio.sh has run permissions pressing right click in the file, properties --> permission tab.

After that, open a terminal cntrl + alt + t and navigate to the folder where you unzip Android Studio. Then after make cd /bin run studio.sh with ./studio.sh &

When you have Studio running you can go to Configure option and then select Create Desktop Entry to create a entry in your Unity launcher

Answer 2

You can install Android studio in Ubuntu with apt or apt-get command. Please use the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:paolorotolo/android-studio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-studio