Saturday, November 7, 2015

Android-So You Want to Write an App?


In this blog, I will try and filter out my learning experience with Android 23. Only what did work for me will be reflected below. And my computer info is:
alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/product $ uname -aLinux alec-MS-7623 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The first thing to do is to DOWNLOAD ANDROID STUDIO FOR LINUX - hit this button when you see it. Then:
alec@alec-MS-7623 ~ $ cd ~/product/
alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/product $ mv ~/Downloads/android-studio-ide-141.2343393-linux.zip .
alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/product $ unzip android-studio-ide-141.2343393-linux.zip 
...alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/product $ mkdir ~/binalec@alec-MS-7623 ~/product $ cd ~/binalec@alec-MS-7623 ~/bin $ ln -s ~/product/android-studio/bin/studio.sh android-studio
and
alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/bin $ cd ~/project/alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/project $ mkdir androidalec@alec-MS-7623 ~/project $ cd android/alec@alec-MS-7623 ~/project/android $ android-studio &
Now follow the instructions on the Installing Android Studio page. Having launched Standalone SDK Manager, hit the Install... button. Sleep!