Development environment for Android

How to setup Android Studio on Linux

Android Studio is now the official IDE to build Android applications

• Get the Studio IDE from https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• Unzip the downloaded file

# cd ~/bin/
# unzip android-studio-ide-*-linux.zip

• Add android-studio/bin/ to your path

 # export PATH=$PATH:~/bin/android-studio/bin
 # sed -i -e '/^PATH/s/$/:$HOME\/bin\/android-studio\/bin/' .bash_profile

• To start Android Studio execute:

# studio.sh

How to setup Android SDK

Linux Setup
If installing on a 64-bit system, then install the following packages before to start because Android SDK is 32-bit

yum install glibc.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXrender.i686 libXrandr.i686

• Download the Android SDK
• Add to the $PATH the tools location

export PATH=${PATH}:<sdk_location>/tools:<sdk_location>/platform-tools

• Install add-ons and documentation
• Download and install plugin for the preferred IDE

Windows Setup

• Download SDK
• Install SDK
• Disable anti-virus
• Install add-ons and documentation
• Download and install plugin for the preferred IDE

How to setup Eclipse to build Android Apps on Linux (Legacy)

This setup Eclipse and Android Eclipse Plugin on Linux

• Install Eclipse

yum install eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-gef

• Enable the proper eclipse repository, based on the release codename http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ECLIPSE_RELEASE/
• Update eclipse, Help > Check Updates
• Add the ADT on Help > Install New Software
• On the new dialog click on 'Add' button and fill in the following fields:
  • Location: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
  • Name: Android Plugin