Starting Android Studio

Once the Android Studio is installed in the system using snap, we can start Android Studio through our terminal by typing android-studio in our terminal or by clicking on the Android Studio icon.

To start Android Studio when installed using the zip file, run the following command:

/usr/local/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

Tip: To make Android Studio available in your list of applications, select Tools > Create Desktop Entry from the Android Studio menu bar.

When we start Android Studio for the first time, the below window will appear asking us to import Android Studio settings from a previous installation:

When we click on the OK button, the Setup Wizard window will appear. We have to click on the Next button to start the initial configuration and post-installation steps. Now option to choose the type of setup we want for Android studio will appear. We can select the “Standard” option or “Custom” option if we want to customize our Android Studio.

We can select the UI theme and the Setup Wizard on the next step. It will download and install the required SDK components. The process may take some time depending on our system and connection speed. Once the Android Studio IDE is loaded, the Welcome page will be presented:

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.