How to install Android Studio on Xubuntu 16.04

Android studio is the official android development tool, you need to install android studio if you want to create android application or learning about android development. In this article i will show you how to install android studio on xubuntu 16.04.

Step by step how to install android studio on xubuntu 16.04

• First of all you need to have JDK (java development kit) installed on your system, you can use either open JDK or oracle JDK, it's up to you.
• Go to android studio website and download the package.
• open command line/terminal on xubuntu (press CTRL + ALT + T)
• install required package for android studio, if you are running 64 bit xubuntu

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386

• unzip the android studio to /opt/ directory (assuming the zip file name is android-studio-ide-162.3934792-linux.zip)

sudo unzip android-studio-ide-162.3934792-linux.zip -d /opt/

• run studio.sh and follow the installation wizard

/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

• done! now you can start creating new android studio project

Tips:

To make Android Studio available in your list of applications, select Tools > Create Desktop Entry from the Android Studio menu bar.

Now that you have android studio, you can start to develop some android app on xubuntu, happy coding!

Author : kernel-panic

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