Android Studio Ubuntu 18.04 Installation Guide

May 23rd, 2018 by thelinuxevangelist

Android Studio Ubuntu 18.04 Installation

You are Welcome! This Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install Android Studio IDE on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic LTS 32/64-bit GNU/Linux Desktop.

First of all the Android Studio for Ubuntu 18.04 is the Official IDE for Android Application Development, based on IntelliJ IDEA.

Especially relevant: the Android App Development Requires a working Oracle Java JDK Installation for Ubuntu.

Finally the Android Studio IDE main Features are:

Flexible Gradle-based build system
Build variants and multiple apk file generation
Code templates to help you build common app features
Rich layout editor with support for drag and drop theme editing
Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems
ProGuard and app-signing capabilities
Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine

1. Launching Shell Emulator

Open a Terminal window
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
2. Downloading Android Studio for Ubuntu

Download Android Studio IDE for Ubuntu Linux:

Android Studio IDE Zip Linux

Android Studio IDE.

If possible Select directly “Open with Archive Manager”!
2. Extracting Android Studio IDE

Then Double-Click on Android Archive
Extract into /tmp
3. Installing Dependencies

This for 64-bit Systems only, Install Required Packages
```
sudo apt install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6
```
4. Installing Oracle JDK

How-to Install Required Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu:

Install Oracle JDK for Ubuntu

SetUp Oracle JDK on Ubuntu.
5. Relocating Android Studio

Again to Relocate Android Studio IDE
For a System wide installation we Set the superUser as Holder
```
sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/android-studio
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then Look: Solution
Then Move the Android Studio content into the /opt Directory
```
sudo mv /tmp/android-studio /opt/
```
6. Amending User’s Path

And to Make the Android SDK Command-line Accessible
Amend the User’s Path like:
```
nano ~/.bashrc
```
Append:
```
export PATH=~/Android/sdk/platformtools:\
~/Android/sdk/tools:\
/opt/android-studio/bin:$PATH
```
Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano editor :)

So Now I’m truly Happy if this Info could Help You to Install Android Studio on Ubuntu 18.04!