Android Studio, Google's own IDE for Android development, is a good alternative to Eclipse with the ADT plugin. Android Studio can be installed from source code, but below we will see how to install it on Ubuntu via a PPA.
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Install Android Studio on Ubuntu, officially.
You can install Android Studio using Ubuntu Make. To perform the installation, we will need to install Ubuntu Make:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
Finally, to install Android Studio, we will run:
umake android
If you want to uninstall it, run:
umake android --remove
Install Android Studio on Ubuntu, unofficially.
We have a PPA that can be used to easily install Android Studio on Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10, Linux Mint, and other Ubuntu-based distributions. Keep in mind that it will download around 650 MB of data.
We will use the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:paolorotolo/android-studio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-studio
To uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove android-studio
sudo ppa-purge ppa:paolorotolo/android-studio
If you don't have purge installed, you can install it using the command:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge