Should Android Studio be run with sudo on Linux

Question

I am facing issues when I need to, for example, download new Build-tools using the Standalone SDK Manager. It says it does not have permissions etc - so I run ./studio.sh with sudo, which fixes the problem.

I have not faced more problems yet, but what is the right way of running Android Studio on Linux - with, or without sudo rights? I do not want grant it rights if it can do without it.

Just to mention, Android Studio is placed at /opt/android-studio/... And the SDK at ~/Android/Sdk/... (to my understanding this should not need root privileges?)

UPDATE
I keep getting access errors if running without sudo and simply trying to build the project.

Could not read path '/home/fakepath/app/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.google.maps.android/android-maps-utils/0.4.4/jni'

Answer 1

I found the best solution so far the worked for me is a constructive answer:

• sudo for Android Studio?

  It's usually good to minimize the programs you need to run as root. - @Kyle

  Run Android Studio without sudo

• sudo for SDK Manager only

  You can run just the SDK manager by running the shell script "android" in the android-sdk/tools folder sudo sh /opt/android-sdk/tools/android - @Kyle

  Launch SDK Manager separately when an update is needed

• Granting file access permissions

  if you wanted to run it as your own user, you could do that by changing ownership of the entire /opt/android-studio directory (recursively) - @matias elgart

  sudo chown -R youruser:youruser /home/fakepath/app - @num8er

  So in my case, I have changed the ownership of Android SDK folder for Android Studio to pick up the files without any problems. This has solved my issues:

  sudo chown -R myusername:myusername ~/fakepath/Android/Sdk/
  

Answer 2

It's usually good to minimize the programs you need to run as root. You can run just the SDK manager by running the shell script "android" in the android-sdk/tools folder

$ sh /opt/android-sdk/tools/android