How To Install Android Studio 3.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of IntelliJ’s powerful code editor and developer tools, Android Studio offers even more features that enhance your productivity when building Android apps

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Android Studio on an Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.

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Install Android Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Java on Ubuntu.

You need to have Java installed in your system before installing Android Studio:

sudo apt install openjdk-9-jre openjdk-9-jdk

Step 3. Install Android Studio on Ubuntu 18.04.

Run the following commands to add Android Studio PPA and install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio
sudo apt update
sudo apt install android-studio

Once the installation is finished, You can access android studio from the dash or app launcher or use the following command to start:

/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Android Studio. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Android Studio on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Android Studio web site.

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