For those chosen ones, who preferred Linux development environment
Requirements
First of all, you will need a few things to get started. They are: Android SDK
and Apache Ant
. Of course, you will need Java SDK
(JDK) installed.
To get Android SDK working for all users, you shall need to modify the /etc/environment
file and then restart your PC. But if you do not want that hard way - follow me, think of yourself as the only PC user. And use /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.bashrc
file to edit.
Let's remember your home path one time to prevent further long lines. Add this one to your /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.bashrc
:
export HOME="/home/YOUR_USERNAME"
We'll then use the $HOME
notation when we want to say "/home/YOUR_USERNAME directory
".
Setting up Android SDK
Download the Android SDK archive and unzip it somewhere. Let's say, yo your home directory, $HOME/adt-bundle/
.
Add these lines to your $HOME/.bashrc
:
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/android-bundle/sdk/tools"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="$HOME/android-bundle/sdk/platform-tools"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS:$PATH"
Setting up Ant
Just as with the Android SDK, download an archive and unzip it to your home directory. Then add these to your .bashrc
:
export ANT_HOME="$HOME/ant"
export PATH="$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin"
I've installed one via the apt-get
so this did not affect my .bashrc
.
Applying changes
To make these changes work, you should either work in a new terminal window (opened after the changes), or run source ~/.bashrc
to make changes available in the current terminal window.
Wrapping up
At the end, you will got:
- Two directories at your home directory -
ant
and android-bundle
A few lines, added to your .bashrc
:
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/android-bundle/sdk/tools"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="$HOME/android-bundle/sdk/platform-tools"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS:$PATH"
export ANT_HOME="$HOME/ant"
export PATH="$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin"