Task 2 - Installing Android Studio

Go to Android Studio Download page and click on ‘Download Android Studio’ button to download it.

Once you click on the download button, it will prompt to accept / agree with Terms and Conditions, feel free to read the T&Cs, select the bottom checkbox to agree with T&Cs and click on ‘Download Android Studio for Windows’ button.

Android Studio would start the downloading which may take about 10 to 20 minutes. Once the installation file is downloaded, Android Studio setup will start. If it setup process doesn't start by itself, double click the downloaded application(.exe) file to start the installation of Android Studio.

(Android Studio Setup video)

Click ‘Next’ in the above screen.

Select all the components in the above screen and click Next

Again, feel free to read the License Agreement if you wish, click on ‘I Agree’.

In the above screen, keep the default values for the paths for Android Studio Installation location and Android SDK Installation location. Click ‘Next’.

In the above screen, choose a name for the start menu folder for Android Studio and click Install.

The installation will start and should complete after few minutes.

Once the installation is complete, click on ‘Next’ button.

On the final screen of the Android Studio setup, click ‘Finish’ button.

Once the installation is complete, Android Studio will prompt you to select from below two options, select the appropriate option. For new installation, you would select the second option. Click Ok.

When starting for the first time, Android Studio will present the below Welcome screen to help setup the development environment. Click ‘Next’ on the below screen.

Choose the type of setup in the following screen and click Next.

Click ‘Finish’ in the next screen, Android Studio may start downloading few more components for the development environment.

That completes our Android Studio installation.

For the next task, we would install react-native command line interface and initialize our react-native project.

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