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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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Google Chrome team officially announces the release of Google Chrome dev 38 web browser for all platforms. This is again a development release which primarily includes fixes of previous dev builds. Currently, this build is available for Windows, Mac and various Linux Distros.

According to official announcement, Google Chrome Dev 38 browser comes with fixed device registration and addition of ExtensionService comments for various methods which are deprecated. Chrome for Android receives offset position for extractSmartClip. It also removes all references to pointers which looks invalid. Also, check how to install Google Chrome on Linux Distros ?
 

The developers make an attempt to load system fonts using Custom Font interface of directwrite instead of system font collection interface. With custom font collections, the developers try to take control of font loading part and explore ways to improve it further. Chrome for Android specify correct prefix/postfix libs for solink on android. You can also review complete list of all changes on their changelog page.

Other changes includes addition of tests for SwipePinchDetector, remove size from receive APIs and return report ID separately, restrict nvidia gralloc workaround to < gles 3.1, fix touch exploration tests so they don't break eager gesture detection and experience sampling API implementation. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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