I want to start learning android dev and I understand that I’ll need the android sdk and cli tools. I want to try it in a kvm because even though it is open source, I would like to keep it separate from my main system. Which distro and vm settings do you suggest I use? Any other tips or your experience with android development on linux would be helpful as well.

  • @[email protected]English
    39•4 months ago

    Okay this “which distro should I use” shit is just getting out of control.

    Which one is best for Android development? Are you kidding me? Just pick any one you like.

  • @KrapKake
    7•4 months ago

    You could use the android studio flatpak, install flatseal to ensure the app doesn’t have permissions you don’t want.

  • @ricdehEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    Debian-based distros are usually the ones with the most official support and documentation with regard to Android.

    • mesamuneEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Anything that can run android studio basically. And Debian can.

  • EugeniaEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    Debian is the best for your needs, because that’s what Google uses internally too (they used to use ubuntu, but a few years ago they moved to a slightly modified version of Debian-Testing). All its engineers are using Debian-Testing at their desktops, so it’s the best tested and tried distro for Android. Although all other distros are also expected to work fine.

  • @aluminium
    1•4 months ago

    I used garuda for a while when doing Android stuff and was really surprised that a lot of things like adb, fastboot and all the filetransfer stuff was working out of the box without even having to setup any android sdk, drivers, … . Not really a distrohopper however, so I can’t tell you if this is a common feature on other distros.