
To install Android Studio there is a prerequisite of having Java Development Kit installed. It's took a bit of experimenting but it's finally there, it may not necessarily be the way others would do it but I'll detail it below just in case anyone needs a starter on it. I had read that it requires a system variable creating called 'Android_Home' then pointing to the location, but how can I script that? Once I have installed it manually and launch the program it then wants to know where the SDK belongs, I can't have it asking the students that it will cause havoc, and besides we don't let them view the C:\ drive to point it to where it belongs even if we told them. The Android SDK is a little more difficult, I can run the file manually and follow the wizard and say 'install for all users' which dumps it into the C:\Program Files but I can't seem to work out how to do this silently. I downloaded the IDE and SDK individually, I can get the IDE to install silently (Again, with the /S parameter) which is fine (tick that one off the list). Not ideal when it's for a multi user environment on each computer. If you run the bundle with a /S parameter it does install, however the Android SDK gets installed to the appdata of the user who is installing. I have looked on their website and there are numerous downloads available, a 'bundle' of the IDE and SDK or you can download them individually.įirstly you need the JDK installed as a prerequisite before you do anything. It doesn't appear to be as straight forward as I was hoping for and wondered if anyone else had cracked it.

I'm looking to deploy Android Studio to around 60 desktops.
