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Android Studio is a new Android development environment which is based in IntelliJ IDEA and provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT. Soon, it will become official Android IDE. Android Studio several key features like flexible gradle baed build system, build variants and multiple APK generation, rich layout editor with support for theme editing. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Among other features, Android Studio also includes lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems, proguard and app signing capabilities. It also provides built in support for Google Cloud Platform making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install Android Studio 0.8.12 and Android SDK using PPA and source tarball on your Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of Android Studio 0.8.12 using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for Android Studio 0.8.12 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for Android Studio 0.8.12 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable Android Studio 0.8.12 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

After installation, now you can install Android SDK with which you can develop your own Android Apps for Android devices. To install Android SDK, just follow the steps given below.

Step Wise Installation of Android SDK on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros

Step 1 : Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to download latest tarball of Android SDK using wget command on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following in terminal to extract recently downloaded Android SDK kit on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to change current directory to tools folder inside extracted directory of Android SDK on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 4 : Finally, run the following command in terminal to execute the Android SDK kit, so that you can start working on Android App on your Ubuntu machines.

Next, click "Install X Packages" and then accept license and press install button to install those packages on your machine.

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