Android Studio, An installation guide.

Here you’ll learn how to download and run android Studio on Linux OS.

Android Studio

Android Studio is an IDE to develop android OS applications.

Requeriments

• Java: Try with java-8

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
  sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
  

• Then, some libraries of 32bits:

  sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6
  

• Android Studio, go to android download website and download it.

• Once downloaded, run these commands:

  unzip android-studio-ide-171.4443003-linux.zip
  cd android-studio/bin
  ./studio.sh
  

  

• Android Studio it starts and it’ll download some main components.
  This take a few minutes.

  

• Once download, you should go to SDK Manager and download API components.
  An API component is a version of Android (for instance, android 4.4).
  Choose your version and download it.

  

• Finally, you can start new project using the API that you downloaded.
  Have fun :D

Android Shell

Is a method that you can connect with your smartphone using SSH connection (through a bash shell).

• First, list a usb devices:

  lsusb
  

  

  Here, you can see my motorola device with Id 22b8.

• Second, install android-tools:

  sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
  

• Third, Creates a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with name 51-android.rules:

  sudo touch etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules 
  sudo nano etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules 
  

  And add:

  SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="22b8", OWNER="jenazad" GROUP="jenazad" 
  

  Where idVendor is the id of my device, OWNER and GROUP is the user permissions.

• Fourth, restart udev service:

  sudo services udev restart
  

• Fifth, check for devices:

  adb devices
  

  

• Sixth, connect with your mobile:

  adb shell
  

  During the process, your mobile will receive a notification to connect through ssh like:

  

  Accept, and now you can manage your data through shell.