Installing Android Development Tools in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit

  1. First, install Eclipse with JDT
    sudo apt-get install eclipse-jdt
  2. Install ia32-libs as this is needed by the Android SDK when running in 64-bit Linux
    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
  3. Download the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
    • Extract the SDK to your home directory (if you’re not sharing it with other users, otherwise, extract in a shared folder like /opt and open up the permissions)
    • Open a terminal and navigate to the tools/ directory in the Android SDK, then execute ./android sdk
    • Download the platforms and packages (this could take a while)
  4. Install the Eclipse ADT Plugin by following this instructions
  5. To test, create a project and launch the default app.

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  2. I’ve spent the entire day trying to load the sdk to my Ubuntu. I’m currently stuck trying to extract and move the file to my home directory. I used from my downloads folder tar -xvsf android-sdk_r21.0.1-linux.tgz && mv android-sdk-linux ~/ and getting tar (child): android-sdk_r21.0.1-linux.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    I’m new to linux using Ubuntu lts version and would like to learn to program in C then Java.

    If you would help me, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Thank you,

    Robyn

  3. I’ve spent the entire day trying to load the sdk to my Ubuntu. I’m currently stuck trying to extract and move the file to my home directory. I used from my downloads folder tar -xvsf android-sdk_r21.0.1-linux.tgz && mv android-sdk-linux ~/ and getting tar (child): android-sdk_r21.0.1-linux.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    I’m new to linux using Ubuntu lts version and would like to learn to program in C then Java.

    If you would help me, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Sorry, I didn’t check the box to get notified by email

    Thank you,

    Robyn

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