Android Studio provides everything you need to start developing apps for Android, including
the Android Studio IDE and the Android SDK tools.
If you didn't download Android Studio, go download Android Studio now, or switch to the
stand-alone SDK Tools
install instructions.
Before you set up Android Studio, be sure you have installed
JDK 6 or higher (the JRE alone is not sufficient)—JDK 7 is required when
developing for Android 5.0 and higher. To check if you
have JDK installed (and which version), open a terminal and type javac -version.
If the JDK is not available or the version is lower than 6,
go download JDK.
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To set up Android Studio on Windows:
- Launch the
.exe file you just downloaded.
- Follow the setup wizard to install Android Studio and any necessary SDK tools.
On some Windows systems, the launcher script does not find where Java is installed.
If you encounter this problem,
you need to set an environment variable indicating the correct location.
Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties >
Advanced System Properties. Then open Advanced tab > Environment
Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to
your JDK folder, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21.
The individual tools and other SDK packages are saved outside the Android Studio application
directory. If you need to access the tools directly, use a terminal to navigate to the location
where they are installed. For example:
\Users\<user>\sdk\
To set up Android Studio on Mac OSX:
- Launch the
.dmg file you just downloaded.
- Drag and drop Android Studio into the Applications folder.
- Open Android Studio and follow the setup wizard to install any necessary SDK tools.
Depending on your security settings, when you attempt to open Android Studio, you might
see a warning that says the package is damaged and should be moved to the trash. If this
happens, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and under
Allow applications downloaded from, select Anywhere.
Then open Android Studio again.
If you need use the Android SDK tools from a command line,
you can access them at:
/Users/<user>/Library/Android/sdk/
To set up Android Studio on Linux:
- Unpack the downloaded ZIP file into an
appropriate location for your applications.
- To launch Android Studio, navigate to the
android-studio/bin/ directory
in a terminal and execute studio.sh.
You may want to add android-studio/bin/ to your PATH environmental
variable so that you can start Android Studio from any directory.
- Follow the setup wizard to install any necessary SDK tools.
Android Studio is now ready and loaded with the Android developer tools, but there are still a
couple packages you should add to make your Android SDK complete.
Continue: Adding SDK Packages
