Installing Android Studio on Ubuntu 64 bit

30 Jan 2016

Note to self: how to install Oracle JDK 8 and Android Studio on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit:

When I installed Ubuntu using the x86_64 image, I realized that Android Studio and the Android SDK tools don’t just install on the default Ubuntu 64-bit image, it’s easier to use the 32-bit image, but I wanted to get it working anyway, so here’s the steps for prosperity.

First install some dependencies needed by Android Studio and the Android SDK on Ubuntu x86_64:

$ sudo apt-get install libindicator7 libappindicator1
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
$ javac -version
$ sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6

Download Android Studio using Chrome:

$ google-chrome-stable
$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ unzip android-studio-ide-141.2456560-linux.zip
$ mv android-studio ..
$ cd ../android-studio/
$ bin/studio.sh

Now install the latest Android SDK from within Android Studio and it should work!

I used a few StackOverflow posts to figure this out, like this one…