How to install the IDE Android Studio on Fedora 22 - Android development on Linux

Android development on Linux IDE Android Studio is a complete  integrated development environment or interface to create and prog...

Android development on Linux

IDE Android Studio is a complete  integrated development environment or interface to create and programming Android Apps for programmers on android platforms. IDE Android Studio is a free software owned by Google under the Apache License 2.0. Android Studio is designed specifically for Android development.

In this article we will explain how to install the Android Studio IDE in the new and the most recent distribution of Fedora 22 with boring details. Moreover at the end of this article I will cite you the most important links to download and install the most appropriate packages for other operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X and all Linux distributions generally.

1.  Install some libraries and important Dependencies for Android Studio on Fedora 22

To install them we must applicate the following Linux command.

$ sudo dnf install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686

$ sudo dnf install compat-libstdc++-296.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 ncurses-libs.i686

As we can see, in the 22th version of Fedora the yum software manager was changed by dnf. So for older versions of Fedora we can just change dnf by yum.

2.  Download the package of Android Studio For Linux

From the official Android Studio website we can download the Android Studio package for Linux. Or from the direct link android-studio-ide-141.1980579-linux.zip

3.  Install JAVA jdk-devel on Linux

Almost all android applications are designed with Java programming language and it is the programming language adopted on the IDE Android Studio. To get JAVA for Android Studio we must install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel package:

$ sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel

4.  Preparing to install Android Studio

Unzipping the package to /tmp path with the command:

$ sudo unzip android-studio-ide-141.1903250-linux.zip -d /tmp/

Transfer files to /opt path like superuser or root:

$ sudo su

$ chown -R root:root /tmp/android-studio && mv /tmp/android-studio /opt

Create an alias to execute the shell script to launch Android Studio with asb command:

$ ln -s /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh /usr/local/bin/asb

$ exit

Create a shortcut in the list of Programs (or launcher). We can use the gedit editor or another text editor instead of vi editor:

$ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/asb.desktop

Then we must past the following script:

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=Android Studio

Comment=Android Studio 1-0

Exec=asb

Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/idea.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;

StartupNotify=true

After this steps we can launch Android Studio from the launcher or from the terminal with the $ asb command.

Android Studio is available and compatible with Windows, Mac OS X  and Linux. Here you have the most important packages to install the most appropriate  for your operating system.

Install SDK Tools Only

Platform	Package	Size
Windows	installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe (Recommended)	151659917 bytes
	android-sdk_r24.4.1-windows.zip	199701062 bytes
Mac OS X	android-sdk_r24.4.1-macosx.zip	102781947 bytes
Linux	android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz	326412652 bytes

Install all Android Studio Packages

Platform	Package	Size
Windows	android-studio-bundle-141.2456560-windows.exe (Recommended)	1209163328 bytes
	android-studio-ide-141.2456560-windows.exe (No SDK tools included)	351419656 bytes
	android-studio-ide-141.2456560-windows.zip	375635150 bytes
Mac OS X	android-studio-ide-141.2456560-mac.dmg	367456698 bytes
Linux	android-studio-ide-141.2456560-linux.zip	380943097 bytes