Set up Android Studio on debian 7 wheezy 64-bit

Now that Android Studio is the official IDE for Android, you can set it up on your development box running debian 7 wheezy 64-bit as follows:

  1. Get Android studio from here
    cd /tmp
    wget https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/1.1.0/android-studio-ide-135.1740770-linux.zip
  2. Unzip it to /opt:
    cd /tmp
    unzip android-studio-ide-135.1740770-linux.zip
    sudo mv android-studio /opt
  3. Install OpenJDK 7 JDK:
    sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
  4. Set up the required environmental variable
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64
  5. Set up 32-bit libraries to avoid the error:
    Downloading android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz from https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz
    Unpacking android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz
    tar xzvfC /tmp/AndroidStudio1254025343410050340FirstRun/android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz /tmp/AndroidStudio1254025343410050340FirstRun/android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz-unpacked
    Unable to run mksdcard SDK tool.
    

    as follows:

    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install i32-libs
    
  6. Start Android studio:
    /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

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