How to Set Up Ionic/Cordova Environment

tutorial,linux

This tutorial is for Linux, not Mac!

First, download Android Studio
and extract the folder in /usr/bin

execute /bin/studio.sh
Set ANDROID_HOME 

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export ANDROID_HOME=/home/kelly/Android/Sdk
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH"

Second, install Java 8
https://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-java-8-ubuntu-via-ppa/
Set JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME

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JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre

Third, install Gradle
export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/bin/android-studio/gradle/gradle-3.2
add GRADLE_HOME/bin into PATH

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export PATH="$GRADLE_HOME/bin:/usr/bin/android-studio/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH"

Now run ionic cordova build android
if you see license problem, try:

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mkdir "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses"
echo -e "\n8933bad161af4178b1185d1a37fbf41ea5269c55" > "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses/android-sdk-license"

Finally, set up Virtual Device using Android Studio
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html