Android Studio INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS =============================================================================== Linux Installation Instructions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Unpack the Android Studio distribution archive that you downloaded to where you wish to install the program. We will refer to this destination location as your {installation home} below. 2. Open a console and cd into "{installation home}/bin" and type: ./studio.sh to start the application. As a side effect, this will initialize various configuration files in the ~/.AndroidStudio4.0 directory. 3. [OPTIONAL] Add "{installation home}/bin" to your PATH environment variable so that you may start Android Studio from any directory. 4. [OPTIONAL] To adjust the value of the JVM heap size, create ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config/studio.vmoptions (or studio64.vmoptions if using a 64-bit JDK), and set the -Xms and -Xmx parameters. To see how to do this, you can reference the vmoptions file under "{installation home}/bin" as a model. [OPTIONAL] Changing the location of "config" and "system" directories ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By default, Android Studio stores all your settings under the ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config directory and uses ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/system as a data cache. If you want to change these settings, 1. Open a console and cd into ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config 2. Create the file "idea.properties" and open it in an editor. Set the idea.system.path and/or idea.config.path variables as desired, for example: idea.system.path=~/custom/system idea.config.path=~/custom/config 3. Note that we recommend to store data cache ("system" directory) on a disk with at least 1GB of free space. Enjoy! -Android Studio Development Team