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