The snap package bundles the latest Android Studio along with OpenJDK and all the necessary dependencies. No need to download Android Studio as zip, try to manually install it, add PPAs or fiddle with Java installation. The easiest method to install Android Studio (or any other developer tool) on Ubuntu is to use the snap package from Ubuntu Software store. Select the latest API (to test against target build, e.g API 19 (Android 4.4.2)) and some packages in Extras (Android Support Library and Android Support Repository). Click on Configure -> SDK Manager to open Android SDK Manager. You need to install some SDK before you jump into building android apps. To make sure, it’s installed successfully, open a terminal and type (you should get the version number of the jdk you’ve installed e.g javac 1.8.0_11) javac -versionĭownload the Android Studio package for Linux and extract it somewhere (e.g home directory). Sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default Sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java Below are the steps to install Android Studio in Ubuntu system:įirst, install Oracle JDK 8 (although you could also choose OpenJDK but it has some UI/performance issues) using WebUpd8 PPA.

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