October 12, 2022

Android Studio

ADT has been replaced by Android Studio.

Now that I have it installed (10-12-2022), I just type "studio" on the command line.

On my Fedora system, I select the download link. I recognizes I am running a 64 bit linux and offers me 2021.3.1 "dolphin". This is a 939M download. 
android-studio-2021.3.1.16-linux.tar.gz
I give the command to install some 32 bit libraries (but they are already installed: 
dnf install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686
cd /u1
tar xzvf android-studio-2021.3.1.16-linux.tar.gz
This untars into /u1/android-studio 
cd /u1/android-studio/bin
./studio.sh
This just launches it. No initial dialogs, no setup wizard. It does start quickly.

I have an old script "studio" from 2012 that still works (!!) and just does: 

/u1/android-studio/bin/studio.sh
I had previously (in May, 2022) downloaded 2021.1.1 "bumblebee", but moved it out of the way into /u1/android-studio-OLD.

They say that Android Studio is built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software, so maybe we have escaped the sluggish Java horror that was Eclipse. They say it is "Gradle based". Gradle is some kind of project "build system" (like make?).

Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

Adventures in Computing / tom@mmto.org