Android Starter

Howto install Android Studio for beginners.
1. Download Android Studio http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Unpack the .zip file and point it to your preferred localtion such as /usr/local/ for your user profile or /opt/ for shared users.
root@Inspiron-1525:~/Download# unzip android-studio-ide-143.2739321-linux.zip  -d /opt

3.To launch Android Studio, open a terminal, navigate to the /opt/android-studio/bin/ directory and execute the studio.sh 

root@Inspiron-1525:~/Download#cd /opt/android-studio/bin

root@Inspiron-1525:~/opt/android-studio/bin#sh studio.sh

4. The  Android Studio Wizard guides you though the rest of the setup, and includes download SDK components which is required for development.

Note: If you are running 64 bit Linux OS, install the following:

  For Ubuntu

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

  For Fedora

     sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686