Android Studio 3.4

[smilliken]

Android Studio 3.4 is out. Any chance of looking at this? No hurray, when you have time.

Thanks

[Stevo]

Isn't it proprietary, like Google Earth?

[smilliken]

Don't know. Installed from the repos, oh, think I just answered my question. But when I start Android Studio, it advises there is an update.

The package in the repos is 182.504246mx17. This a aka ver 3.2

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[Stevo]

Oh, it's a script to download and install android-studio. I don't know if it's limited to one version, or if it will install the latest release if you run it again...no, the preinst file gets the 3.2 zip file; it's hard-coded. The postinst script has some code to change the permissions on /opt/android-studio so you can upgrade it in place, but it must not have worked if you're getting the upgrade error.

[Stevo]

It appears that Oracle has recently broken the oracle-java8-installer package, which android-studio depends upon.
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java

I don't know if Android Studio can use the Open version of Java 8 in our repo; that will need some research.

[Stevo]

If you run these two commands as sudo or root, can it do the in-place upgrade to 3.4?

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find /opt/android-studio/ -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find /opt/android-studio/ -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;

[smilliken]

Opened with sudo and it updated.

sudo /opt/android-studio/bin/./studio.sh

Probably created a root workspace as it went thru a bunch stuff that it does on first startup.

Works find a regular user.

The version in Synaptic stills shows as the CR version.

[Stevo]

Yes, the repo package is just a script that installs the 3.2 version, and you didn't change that, but it's probably broken since the oracle java 8 installer won't work for anyone any more.

[smilliken]

Thanks for your help Stevo