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Android Studio Shortcut in Ubuntu 16.04

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https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html

Android Studio on Ubuntu

When you install Android Studio on Ubuntu, you have to go to the android studio folder and run studio.sh, to create Shortcut file in Ubuntu 16.04 create file ~/.local/share/applications/AndroidStudio.desktop

vi ~/.local/share/applications/AndroidStudio.desktop

Add

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Android Studio
Exec="/home/YOUR-USER-NAME/programs/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f
Icon=/home/YOUR-USER-NAME/programs/android-studio/bin/studio.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-android-studio
Name[en_GB]=android-studio.desktop

In this case, i have android-studio files placed in programs folder on my home directory.

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