Installing Android Studio on Linux

Hello to everybody. Hope you heard about new IDE created by Google for Android developers named Android Studio. So the story begins when I tried to install it on my OpenSuse netbook. I've read a lot of manuals and articles before succeeded to run it. So if you experience some problems to run Android Studio on your Linux PC, read this and I hope you'll manage to win.


First of all we need to download it from http://developer.android.com. Here is the download link:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/linux-studio


Next, after downloading we have a .tgz archive which we need to untar.

sudo tar -xzf ./android-studio-bundle-130.677228-linux.tgz


After that we have a folder named android-studio.


Now all we need is to install Java from Oracle.

Go to Oracle website and download suitable version for your architecture, e.g. jdk7u21-linux-x64.rpm

Then you need to install that package:

sudo rpm -ivh ./jdk7u21-linux-x64.rpm


After all those manipulation you might think that everything's ready, but no. We also need to validate environmental variables:

cd /usr/java

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/

export PATH:$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin


Then we go to android-studio/bin folder and run

./studio sh


And here we go. We are ready to create awesome apps for our favorite platform.