Android 5.0 Lollipop in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions

Android 5.0 Lollipop in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions

In this guide we will see how to test Android 5.0 Lollipop in Linux thanks to the Android SDK, here's how.

Android SDK - 5.0 Lollipop
A few days ago Google has officially unveiled the new Android 5.0 Lollipop, a new version of the popular mobile operating system that will find pre-installed in the new Nexus 6, 9 and Player.
Lollipop Android 5.0 brings with it many new features from the new GUI Material Design and other improvements. We can already test preview of the new Android 5.0 Lollipop on our PC through the Android SDK development platform created by Google, which already includes the new version of the mobile operating system.

Through the Android SDK, you can start in our new operating system version 5.0 and earlier Lollipop, an operation that will allow us to be able to "touch" the new UI Material Design and other features of the new mobile operating system.

I should point out that Android 5.0 will be Lollipop "emulated" in our PC, the speed and responsiveness of the mobile operating system also will depend a lot on our hardware.

In order to test Android 5.0 on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions we will have to first install Java, Debian, Ubuntu and type the following:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

At this point we can download the Android SDK for Linux directly from the official project page.
Once you have downloaded and extracted the zip file just move the folder adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-etc in the home and in rinominiamola adt-bundle-linux we type in a terminal:

cd
cd ~/adt-bundle-linux/sdk/tools/
chmod +x android
./android

Android SDK will open after a few seconds we will have the list of packages / upgrades available, select Android SDK Tools, and then under the heading Android 5.0 Android X86 Atom and click Install.

Once installed all you have to create a virtual device to do this go to Menu -> AVD Manager will open a new window, click on Create we have to give a name to the AVD and then choose the device you want to emulate (eg Nexus 5), target choose Android 5.0 under the heading Skins choose the resolution and then how much RAM and storage to provide the device.
Saving all, we just have to click on Start and we have Android 5.0 Lollipop started.