Install Ubuntu Developer Tools Center with Android Studio and Android SDK in Ubuntu

Install Ubuntu Developer Tools Center with Android Studio and Android SDK in Ubuntu

Ubuntu is one of the best Linux platforms with an awesome desktop for regular users (and soon phone and tablets and more!) and great servers for system administrators and devops. A number of developers are choosing Ubuntu as their primary development system of choice, even if they develop for platforms other than Ubuntu itself, like doing some Android development, web development and so on.

Ubuntu Developer Tools Center is currently in alpha and right now, it allows installing the latest version of Android Studio along with the latest Android SDK and their dependencies, enable multi-arch on 64bit machines as well as integrate Android Studio with the Unity Launcher.

Ubuntu Developer Tools Center (UDTC) will always target the latest Ubuntu development version along with the latest Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) version. Right now, Ubuntu 14.04 users who want to install UDTC will have to use the official Ubuntu Developer Tools Center PPA (see installation instructions below), but in the future it should be available in the official Ubuntu 14.04 (backports) repositories. As for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, UDTC is already available in the repositories.

To Install Ubuntu Developer Tools Center with Android Studio and Android SDK in Ubuntu, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Before proceeding, if you've used the unofficial Android Studio PPA maintained by Paolo Rotolo, purge the android-studio package:

sudo apt-get purge android-studio
sudo rm -r "/usr/share/android-studio" 

Ubuntu 14.10: as I said, UDTC is already available in the Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn repositories so to install it, use the following command (or search for it in Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic, etc.):

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-developer-tools-center

Ubuntu 14.04: Ubuntu Developer Tools Center is available in an official PPA maintained by Didier Roche. Add the PPA and install UDTC using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:didrocks/ubuntu-developer-tools-center
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-developer-tools-center

To install Android Studio and Android SDK, simply run the following command:

udtc android

Then, select to accept the license ("a") and UDTC will do the rest, installing Android Studio and Android SDK.

UDTC will only ask for your your password if it needs to install some required dependencies which aren't installed on your system.