The Android Studio snap is maintained by the Snapcrafters community. A snap is a pre-packaged software which works similar to Linux containers.

But for ease of installation and management, we will install Android Studio on Ubuntu from Snapstore. It may be possible to run Android Studio as root in order to allow it to update itself, but this is probably a bad idea with software as large and complex as Android Studio. Android Studio Downloads page contain the latest releases of Android Studio for Linux, Windows, and Mac. The official instructions explain how to use the software's internal update functionality, but doing so requires having write access to the installation directory and Android Studio files, which means that either Android Studio must have been installed to an area of the filesystem under the user's control (e.g., under $HOME), or the appropriate directories and files must have been transferred to the user (e.g., via chown). Upgrading Android Studio when installed from the tarball can be tricky. See the official instructions for more information.Įxecute the program: /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh & Tar -xvzf /path/to/archive/android-studio-2021.1.1.

For example, if the downloaded archive is named android-studio-2021.1.1., navigate to the desired installation location (e.g., /opt) and run:

Setup android studio linux