Note: Android no longer supports Studio for 32 bit Linux / Ubuntu platforms hence you will need only 64 bit platforms for development on Ubuntu. The prerequisite to make sure we can compile Android applications using command line, is we need to install JDK as, $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk Visit website https://developer.android.com/studio/ Click on “Download Android Studio” button to download latest version of Android Studio. Once you click on Download, you will be asked to Accept the terms and conditions.

Command line execution

Terminalbash
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk Visit website  https://developer.android.com/studio/ Click on “Download Android Studio” button to download latest version of Android Studio. Once you click on Download, you will be asked to Accept the terms and conditions. After accepting, it will download an  android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz  ( It could be different when you download, this was latest when we installed ) at your machine. To install Android Studio on Linux, proceed as follows: $ cd /home/myuser/devlab Copy android-studio-ide-183.5452501-linux.tar.gz to /home/myuser/devlab $ mv ~/Downloads/android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz . $ tar xvf android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz The above command will extract the android studio at /home/devlab/devlab/android-studio You can launch the android studio as, $ cd android-studio $ cd bin $ ./studio.sh Follow the setup Wizard, and If you continue with first start, it will download the Android SDK required for compilation of android apps at SDK Folder: /home/devlab/Android/Sdk Total Download Size approx. : 698 MB

Implementation details

After accepting, it will download an android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz ( It could be different when you download, this was latest when we installed ) at your machine. To install Android Studio on Linux, proceed as follows: $ cd /home/myuser/devlab Copy android-studio-ide-183.5452501-linux.tar.gz to /home/myuser/devlab $ mv ~/Downloads/android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz . $ tar xvf android-studio-2020.3.1.24-linux.tar.gz The above command will extract the android studio at /home/devlab/devlab/android-studio You can launch the android studio as, $ cd android-studio $ cd bin $ ./studio.sh Follow the setup Wizard, and If you continue with first start, it will download the Android SDK required for compilation of android apps at SDK Folder: /home/devlab/Android/Sdk Total Download Size approx. : 698 MB

Gotchas and common issues

  • Permission checks - verify user access rights and sudo privileges before executing system-level operations.

  • Environment configuration - double-check path variables and dependency versions to prevent runtime failures.

  • Backup safeguards - maintain configuration backups before applying system or database modifications.

Following these steps ensures clean configuration and reliable execution for install android studio for 64 bit ubuntu machines.