Hey long term readers! Just another short entry so that things I find useful to know are actually accessible to other people if they so need it. Today: Getting Android Studio to work in Debian (Wheezy).
So when I first ‘installed’ (read: unzipped) Android Studio, it wouldn’t start up – something about a .jar file missing:
‘tools.jar’ seems to be not in Android Studio classpath. Please ensure JAVA_HOME points to JDK rather than JRE.
Which, as any programmer who encounters an odd error does, was promptly pasted into Google to see what other people had done about this. And really, there wasn’t a huge amount of things on it specifically, a lot of posts about needing to install the full Sun/Oracle JDK. Now, as I’m running Debian, that would mean changing the entire Java kit out from the OpenJDK that is currently installed… so I wondered – couldn’t I just install the OpenJDK Dev Kit? lo-and-behold, one simple aptitude install later and its all working – apart from an upgrade to Android Studio straight away… So, to get this working easily, and without any faffing about re-installing the entirety of Java, you just need to do this:
sudo aptitude install openjdk-6-jdk
Wait for it to finish, then re-try running Android Studio!
NB: I did find that the first time I ran it, the first menu screen didn’t render properly, but I think that may just have been a bug that was fixed in the update to Android Studio.