How to use The Snap Tool In Android

When the snap tool is available it becomes too easy to install software packages. We do not have to modify any files or type in any scary commands. But we need to have Snap installed on our machine in the first place.

i). We can install Snap, using the below command:

$ sudo apt-get install snapd

ii). Once the installation of Snap gets successful, we can proceed to install Android Studio with the below command:

$ sudo snap install android-studio

It may take some time, hence we have to wait for some minutes. It should be installed successfully, but for some reason, if it throws an error like this:

error: This revision of snap “android-studio” was published using classic confinement and thus may perform arbitrary system changes outside of the security sandbox that snaps are usually confined to, which may put your system at risk.

iii). Then we have to add the –classic parameter to the command as shown below:

$ sudo snap install android-studio --classic

Once it installed successfully, we can check the final setup section.

Android Studio is a full-featured cross-platform IDE that helps us to build applications for Android devices. Android Studio is based on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA. This IDE includes everything we need for Android development. Android Studio build system is powered by Gradle allowing you to make multiple build variants for various devices from one project. This article will explain the way to install Android Studio on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use the same instructions for older Ubuntu versions and any Ubuntu-based distribution, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Elementary OS.

Prerequisites: We need to be logged in as a user with sudo access. It will make our system able to install packages on our Ubuntu system.