Android Setup

Installing Android Studio

▶️ 3rd Kibo-RPC Tutorial Video: 02 How to Set up Android Studio

https://developer.android.com/studio/install

• Download Android Studio 3.6.3 from download archives https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

Linux

• Download and extract the file to /usr/local/ for your user profile

wget https://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/android/studio/ide-zips/3.6.3.0/android-studio-ide-192.6392135-linux.tar.gz
tar -xzvf android-studio-ide-192.6392135-linux.tar.gz
sudo mv android-studio /urs/local

• Launch Android Studio: Open a terminal, navigate to the android-studio/bin/ directory, and execute studio.sh.
• Optional: Create a Desktop Entry File

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop
 
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Android Studio
Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.png
Exec="/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f
Comment=Android IDE
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
 

• Install the following components:
  • openJDK8
  • ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
  • Gradle

sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-8-jdk adb gradle

• Install required 32-bit libraries for 64-bit machines

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

Download Android SDK

To build the Guest Science APK, you need to download additional components as follows:

• Launch Android Studio.
• Select [Tools] → [SDK].
• On the SDK Platforms tab:
  • Check “Show Package Details”.
  • Select “Android SDK Platform 25”, “Android SDK Platform 26”, and “Android SDK Platform 28”.
• On the SDK Tools tab:
  • Check “Show Package Details”.
  • Select “25.0.3”, “26.0.2” and “28.0.3” under Android SDK Build Tools and Android SDK Platform Tools.
    • Uncheck other versions
• Click the [Apply] button to install these components.

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