Easy Steps to Install Android Studio

Here, I will explain how to install android studio in few easy steps.

Android Studio is an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) which is developed by Google, for developing own and customize android applications, based on IntelliJ IDEA.

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Step-1.Download Android Studio:-

Before downloading Android studio always try to check the latest version from Android Developer.

If you are installing the Android Studio 2.2 or higher, no need to install the JDK separately because it comes with JDK. But if you are installing the Android Studio 2.1 or lower version, then you should download the JDK.You can download the JDK from here.

Step-2.How to Install:-

Installation in Windows:-

Requirement:-

• Microsoft Windows -7/8/10. It can be 32 or 64 bit.
• minimum of 3 GB RAM, the maximum can be 8 GB RAM.
• It should have availability of disk space of a minimum of 2 GB of available disk, But it is recommended to have 4 GB recommended. Storage is partition into 2 ways 500MB for IDE and an extra 1.5b GB for Android Emulator.
• If you don't have space availability or high RAM you can run your app on a physical device in place of Android Emulator.
• Screen resolution should be 1200 x 800.

Installation steps:-

1. Click on the .exe file which is downloaded (recommended), double-click to launch it.
2. For the .zip file, unpack the ZIP, copy the android-studio folder into your Program Files folder and then open the android-studio > bin > studio64.exe (for a 64-bit machine) or studio.exe (for a 32-bit machine).
3. Follow Android Studio Setup Wizard tips which can help you with the rest of the process and install any recommended SDK packages.

Custom SDK — If you have SDK files with you, select Custom Install in the Install Type. In the SDK components uncheck SDK. You will be prompted to provide the location of the SDK directory.

Installation in Mac:-

Requirement:-

• 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended
• 2 GB of available disk space minimum, 4 GB Recommended.
• 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
• Mac OS X 10.10 or higher

Installation steps :

1. Launch the Android Studio DMG file
2. Drag and drop Android Studio into the Applications folder and launch Android Studio.
3. Check/Uncheck to import previous Android Studio settings, then click OK.
4. Follow Android Studio Setup Wizard which helps you with the rest of the process which includes downloading Android SDK components that are required for the development.

DMG Damage Error — If you see a warning when opening Android Studio that says the package is damaged, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and under Allow applications downloaded from, select Anywhere. Then open Android Studio again.

If there is an update in the Android Studio, then a pop-up will be shown to you for downloading the new updates. Also, you can check for updates from Help > Check for Updates.

Installation in Linux Machine:-

Requirements:

• 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended
• 2 GB of availability of disk space minimum, 4 GB Recommended
• If you don’t have space availability or high RAM you can run your app on a physical device in place of Android Emulator.
• GNOME or KDE desktop
• GNU C Library (Glibc) 2.19 or later
• 64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications.

Installation steps:

1. Unpack the .zip file downloaded,such as within /usr/mindorks/ for your user profile, or /opt/ for shared users.
2. To launch Android Studio, open a command prompt(ctrl + alt + T), navigate to the directory android-studio/bin, and execute studio.sh by running ./studio.sh
3. Check/Uncheck to import previous Android Studio settings, then click OK.
4. Follow the Android Studio Setup Wizard which helps you with the rest of the process which also includes downloading Android SDK components which is helpful for development.

If you are having a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, you need to install some 32-bit libraries with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++i386 lib32z1 libbz2–1.0:i386

For 64-bit Fedora, the command is:

$ sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libsi686 bzip2-libs.i686

Note: You can add android-studio/bin/ your PATH environment variable so that you can start Android Studio from any directory.

Finaly installation part of Android Studio is done.Now you can run the application using Android Emulator.It is recommend that use Emulator if your machine is having high configuataion.So,Other option is run your application using physical device.For running the application on your physical device, you need to enable the developer options in your smartphone.

Step-3.Enable Developer Options:-

On Android 4.1 and lower, the Developer options screen is available by default.If you are having Android 4.2 and higher, you must enable this screen. To enable developer options,Go to Settings > System > About Phone > Tap Build Number 7 times.You will able to see a Toast message "You are a developer now ".Go the previous activity you will able to see the “Developer Options”. Open it and enable “USB Debugging” mode.

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