How to install Android Studio on Linux

This tutorial is all about installing android studio on linux (ubuntu,fedora,opensuse…..). If you are android app developer and using windows os and feeling your system is slow despite using a decent processor with 16GB RAM, then try atleast once Linux for android app developement , I assure you love Linux stability and speed.

Android Studio Installation Process

Download Android Studio , use All Android Studio Packages.
Extract the archive file into an appropriate location for your applications, eg: /opt . …
To launch Android Studio, navigate to the /opt/android-studio/bin directory in a terminal and execute ./studio.sh .

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Android Studio Installation in Details

Download latest version Android studio from
https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html

In my case downloaded file : android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux.zip

For Zip, extract android studio in /opt folder

Method 1
sudo unzip filename.zip -d /opt
Example
sudo unzip android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux.zip -d /opt sudo -xpf file.zip /opt

Method 2
Download file and right click on file and extract. Now Run the command below
to copy extracted folder to /opt
sudo cp -pr android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux /opt

For tar.gz file, extract android studio in /opt folder

`sudo tar xvfz filename.tar.gz -C /opt`

Create a desktop file

nano ~/.local/share/applications/androidstudio.desktop

and add code below and save
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Android Studio Exec="/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.png Categories=Development;IDE; Terminal=false StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass=android-studio

Now You can launch Android Studio using menu under sub menu Development, if this process fail you launch android studio using terminal using command given below
sudo /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

Note
for 64 bit install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6 from your package manager ,for ubuntu,debian use command below to install
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6 Or sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6