

If your OS is blocking the installation, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and under "Allow applications downloaded from", select Anywhere. You might see a warning that says, "The package is damaged and should be moved to the trash."

If you are using a Mac, your computer might try to block the Android Studio installation. Make certain that the " Virtual Device" checkbox is checked during your install, if available. When you first run Android Studio, there are further questions and downloads of various components you may again use all of the defaults for this part of the process. You can choose all of the default settings during the installation.

The installation make take a while because of all the components and libraries included. Once you have downloaded the installer, run it to install Android Studio on your computer. The download may take a while because the file can be around 1gb or more in size. Then you will be able to download the software. If it works well, the Chromebox 3 could be a very inexpensive way to get up and running with Android Studio.Once you click the Download link, you will be asked to accept a license agreement. We have an ASUS Celeron Chromebox in the office and I’ll be testing out Android Studio on it this week. Oddly enough, two of the Chromeboxes on the list are U-series but nowhere near the Core i5 processor recommended by developers.

Here’s a list a devices Android Developers would recommend for using Android Studio. (Can we just make 8GB the standard for Chrome OS? I mean, seriously.) They also suggest having a device that uses a U-series Kaby Lake processor but I imagine a number of the more powerful Pentium and Y-series chips should handle the IDE just fine. While Android Studio should theoretically run on any Linux-enabled Chrome device, Google recommends 8GB of RAM.
