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.

  • @atzanteolEnglish
    39•25 days 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.

      • @atzanteolEnglish
        18•25 days ago

        “I’m switching from Windows and want a good distro I can watch Mr. Beast videos on.”

    • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍
      3•25 days ago

      “I want to be a game streamer, what games should I play?”

      Also lately I saw a comic where a spectator asked Michelangelo what chisel should they choose if they wanted to be good, that’s pretty spot on

  • @[email protected]
    7•25 days ago

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

  • RichardEnglish
    5•25 days ago

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

    • mesamuneEnglish
      2•25 days ago

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

  • EugeniaEnglish
    3•25 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•25 days 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.