Installing Android Studio on Windows

tl;dr

Extract Android Studio from the zip archive and install it.

Introduction

Android Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing Android applications.
In addition to app development, it also provides features such as Android SDK management and the Android Emulator, allowing you to develop apps for multiple Android devices with just Android Studio.

Downloading Android Studio

Android Studio can be downloaded from the Android Developers site (https://developer.android.com/).

Follow these steps to download Android Studio:

1. Access the Download Android Studio page

2. Select the android-studio-yyyy.mm.dd.zz-windows.zip file and download it

3. This completes the download of Android Studio

Installing Android Studio

Install Android Studio by placing the files extracted from the archive into an appropriate directory.

Follow these steps to install Android Studio:

1. Extract the zip archive using 7z

   C: /Develop > 7z x .\android-studio-2020.3.1.24-windows.zip
   
   7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21
   
   Scanning the drive for archives:
   1 file, 967558484 bytes (923 MiB)
   
   Extracting archive: .\android-studio-2020.3.1.24-windows.zip
   --
   Path = .\android-studio-2020.3.1.24-windows.zip
   Type = zip
   Physical Size = 967558484
     
   

2. Move the contents of the android-studio directory in the extracted files to c:\apps\Develop\android\

   C: /Develop > mv .\android-studio\ C:\apps\Develop\android\
   
   

3. This completes the installation of Android Studio.

Verifying the Operation of Android Studio

Let's verify that the installed Android Studio works correctly by actually running it.
Follow these steps to launch Android Studio:

1. Run studio64.exe under the bin/ directory

   C: /workspaces >  C:\apps\Develop\android\android-studio\bin\studio64.exe
   
   

2. After the splash screen appears, the Welcome screen will be displayed.
   

3. Click Cancel to exit Android Studio.

This completes the verification of Android Studio.