How to Install Android Studio on Fedora

I have a Fedora system and I need to get Android Studio installed. Here's what I do (following these instructions):

sudo dnf install devassistant

 da pkg install android-studio

da crt android-studio --name my_test

 This uses devassistant. This is a free software program developed by some Red Hat people to help set up development environments.

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I got:

INFO: Resolving RPM dependencies with DNF...
Installing 10 RPM packages with DNF. Is this ok? [y(es)/n(o)/s(how)]: y
Installing dependencies ................ Done.
INFO: Android studio was not found on system.
Downloading android studio takes a time. Do you want to continue?
Select [y/n]
y
INFO: Downloading android studio from https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/1.3.0.10/android-studio-ide-141.2117773-linux.zip
INFO: Downloading done
INFO: Downloading android SDK from http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.3.3-linux.tgz
INFO: Downloading done
INFO: Copy android template project to project destination
INFO: .
[devassistant]$ cp -r /home/ed/.devassistant/files/crt/android-studio/. "my_test"
ERROR: no such snippet: init_add_commit
[ed@localhost ~]$ 

So that's a bummer.

However, it did unpack the android studio tarball into a directory, and by going there and into the bin directory, and running studio.sh, I get a running android studio.

As for devassistant I think I will leave it aside for now and move on to other things. ;-)

WiFi Problems

Android Studio has it's own update manager, and it is trying to download a new version of the SDK (I believe), but it keeps killing the wifi. The download start, but then the wifi melts down and disconnects. The wifi works fine once I disconnect and reconnect it. (I am using a USB wifi for this machine.)

Starting Over

I decided to start over, without devassistant. I went to the android studio download page and hit the download button.

On the install page it asked me to install some packages, so I did:

sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686

But when I run studio.sh, I get a bunch of java errors.

I think this is a OpenJDK issue, so I am going to try installing Oracle Java.

Installing Oracle Java

I got the correct file from the Oracle Java download page. Double-click on thed rpm and follow the prompts to install.

But in my case, I found it was already installed. OK, that's cool, but why is android studio using OpenJDK?

I really don't need openJDK. I would prefer to have just one java, and no matter what free software purists might say, I want it to be the Oracle java. So I removed OpenJDK according to some intructions here.

[ed@localhost Downloads]$ rpm -qa | grep java

devassistant-dap-java-0.11.1-3.fc24.noarch

javapackages-tools-4.6.0-14.fc24.noarch

tzdata-java-2016f-1.fc24.noarch

java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

python3-javapackages-4.6.0-14.fc24.noarch

java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

abrt-java-connector-1.1.0-8.fc24.x86_64

java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

[ed@localhost Downloads]$ rpm -qa | grep jdk

jdk1.8.0_101-1.8.0_101-fcs.x86_64

java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

copy-jdk-configs-1.2-1.fc24.noarch

java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64

But when I tried to remove it, it wanted to remove a bunch of other packages that depend on it, like openoffice. I need those packages so I canceled out of that.

[ed@localhost bin]$ sudo alternatives --config java

There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*  1           java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.102-1.b14.fc24.x86_64/jre/bin/java)
 + 2           /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_101/jre/bin/java

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2

However, no matter what I do, android studio still seems to end up using openJDK

[ed@localhost bin]$ ./studio.sh
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=350m; support was removed in 8.0
Looking in classpath from com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader@28c97a5 for /com/sun/jna/linux-x86-64/libjnidispatch.so
Found library resource at jar:file:/home/ed/Downloads/android-studio/lib/jna.jar!/com/sun/jna/linux-x86-64/libjnidispatch.so
Trying /home/ed/.AndroidStudio2.2/system/tmp/jna7490874677544946085.tmp
Found jnidispatch at /home/ed/.AndroidStudio2.2/system/tmp/jna7490874677544946085.tmp
[   4012]   WARN - s.RepoProgressIndicatorAdapter - File /home/ed/.android/repositories.cfg could not be loaded.
[   5834]   WARN - dea.updater.SdkComponentSource - File /home/ed/.android/repositories.cfg could not be loaded.

However, I deleted the previous android-studio directory, and started over. Now it is downloading stuff.