I followed the tutorial on this page.
After completing step 6 (installing the packages) I cannot open Android Studio to get to Android Device Manager. I have looked everywhere for it and have no idea where to find it or how to start it. How can I open it?
I cannot open Android Studio
The tutorial you linked to never mentions Android Studio. In fact, it is not a tutorial about installing the Android Studio IDE. It is a tutorial about installing the Android SDK which you can use to run Android AVDs.
to get to Android Device Manager
You do not need Android Studio (the IDE) to run the Device Manager. The device manager can be opened through the SDK Manager by running the android executable, which is located in the directory where you installed the SDK.
According to the tutorial, you installed it into:
/opt/android-sdk-linux/tools
(There is an error on step 3 in the tutorial which mentions /android-sdk-linux/tools instead, but whatever)
For this reason, you will be able to run the SDK Manager like this:
/opt/android-sdk-linux/tools/android
When the SDK Manager opens, use the menu:
Tools → Manage AVDs...
Create one or more AVDs and then run them. You should definitely choose to create them with x86 ABI, because those using the ARM architecture will be very slow since the CPU needs to be emulated.
The system images for Android must be installed through the SDK Manager that you opened before. You need to close the AVD Manager to use the SDK Manager.
Android studio is starting when you start the installation executable. If i recall correctly, after downloading Android Studio, you have to unzip it and run <android folder>/studio.sh. This is the same sh that will run Android Studio for you. If this option is not working for you, you can always download the complete archive of Android Studio + SDK in android studio website and save yourself the lines in terminal.
Adnroid Studio+SDK download page
You can find the diretory location of android studio by:
sudo find / -iname studio.sh
Once you locate the directory go to it by:
cd ~android studio directory~
Once you are in this directory change permisions of the studio.sh file:
sudo chmod +x ./studio.sh
Now run the studio.sh bash file :
./studio.sh
