Canonical's neglect of Ubuntu Phone has led many developers to use Android and iOS as platforms for their apps. But this is not incompatible with using Ubuntu 17.04 as an operating system. Not much less.
For a long time we have been able to install the tools that Google publishes to create apps on Android. The main tool is Android Studio, an IDE that allows us to create any type of app and upload it to the Play Store simply and quickly.
With the latest versions of Ubuntu, Especially with Ubuntu 17.04, the installation of Android Studio has changed a bit, hence we explain how to install it in our Ubuntu. But if in addition to installing Android Studio you want to do a basic configuration, I recommend that you go through this old item where it is counted how to configure the Google IDE.
The easiest method of installation is by the Ubuntu Make tool. This is a meta-package or tool that auto-installs the programming tool we want, including swift for ios or Android Studio for Android.
And since in these cases it is convenient to have everything updated, we will use an external repository. So we open the terminal and write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Once we have installed the Ubuntu Make tool, we have to write the following to install Android Studio:
umake android
This will start the installation of Android Studio and other tools that will help us to publish Android Apps. However, it may we do not have the necessary dependencies, in that case it will return an error and before installing it again we will have to fulfill the dependencies.
If we want to install other tools or use other programming languages, we have to use the command "umake" followed by the language or set of tools. To know the tools available we just have to write "umake -help" with which all the information will appear.
As you can see, the process is straightforward and simple as well as safe. Thanks to Ubuntu Make, we can install various development platforms without our Ubuntu being compromised, something that many users will appreciate.