How To Install Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating Android applications. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and features to help developers build high-quality apps efficiently.

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 the step-by-step installation of the Android Studio development environment on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386

Step 2. Installing OpenJDK.

Android Studio requires JDK 11 or later. To install OpenJDK 11, which is the recommended version, open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt install default-jdk

This command will install the OpenJDK 11 package and its dependencies.

Step 3. Installing Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04.

• Install Android Studio from the Official Repository

By default, the Android Studio is not available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to download the latest version of Android Studio from the official page:

wget https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/2023.2.1.24/android-studio-2023.2.1.24-linux.tar.gz

After you have downloaded the file, it’s time to unpack it:

tar -zxvf android-studio-*-linux.tar.gz
sudo mv android-studio /opt/

Then, link the executable to /bin directory so that you can quickly start Android Studio using android-studio command:

sudo ln -sf /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh /bin/android-studio

Next, create a .desktop file under the /usr/share/applications a directory that lets you start Android Studio from the Activities.

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop

Add the following files:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Android Studio
Comment=Android Studio
Exec=bash -i "/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f
Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-android-studio
Name[en_GB]=android-studio.desktop

Save and close the file.

• Install Android Studio from the Snap Store.

If Snap package manager is not already installed then you can install it by running the following command below:

sudo apt install snapd

sudo snap install android-studio --classic

Step 4. Accessing Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04.

Once successfully installed on your Ubuntu system, run the following path on your desktop to open the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Android Studio or launching it through the terminal with the command shown below:

android-studio

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Android Studio. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Android Studio on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Android Studio website.