(The NFS server is Scientific Linux 6, but that shouldn't really matter. The systems that run Android Studio are all Fedora 23.

I would like, if possible, to have Android Studio, the SDK, and the default AVD images installed centrally on each system (or, even better, on a NFS share that they all mount), in such a way that when a user starts Android Studio from the standard menu entry, everything just works without the user having to manually configure anything pertaining to the particulars of the system installation. The yearly release cycle means there’s always goodies on the horizon for Android users. Google is already working on Android 14, the big version update for 2023. The first Developer Previews were released in February 2023, and beta updates are available starting in April 2023. The accounts have relatively-small disk quotas and the default way to run Android Studio ends up dropping 2-3 GB of data into each user's home directory, between the SDK and the AVD images. Android 14 is slated for release in Fall 2023. I've got a bunch of Fedora Linux client machines with hundreds of accounts.

Is there a good way to install it and the Android SDK on a Linux system in a way that minimizes the amount of per-user data it creates?

Android Studio really seems to prefer to behave like it's running on a single-user system.

Android sdk is up to date