android-studio-docker [WORK IN PROGRESS]

A Docker image designed to work with Gitpod, letting you run Android Studio as a cloud-based IDE.

 

Current status

• Works, but -
• doesn't persist settings/downloaded plugins/SDKs etc

Usage

Simple demo

See the wiki for brief instructions on how to use this instance in Gitpod on the web.

Use with your own GitHub project

Create a .gitpod.yml file in your repository, with the contents

image: phlummox/android-studio:latest
  file: .gitpod.Dockerfile

ports:
  - port: 6080
    protocol: "http"

# List the start up tasks. You can start them in parallel in multiple terminals. See https://www.gitpod.io/docs/config-start-tasks/
tasks:
  - init: echo 'init script' # runs during prebuild
    command: echo 'start script'

For more on how to configure Gitpod using this file, see https://www.gitpod.io/docs/config-gitpod-file/.

Once the file is pushed to GitHub, you should be able to visit XXX

Running locally

Running the container locally on your machine is also possible, though not especially pleasant: I find the X server tends to die periodically for unknown reasons. You're probably better off sharing your /tmp/.X11-unix unix socket with the guest container. (For other ways of running GUI applications in a Docker container, see the excellent page on this topic on the ROS wiki.)

At any rate, if you want to do that, you can run the following:

$ docker pull phlummox/android-studio:latest
$	docker run --rm -it -p 6080:6080 --hostname my-host phlummox/android-studio:latest bash

Replace "my-host" with the hostname of your host machine. Within the container, look at the contents of the file /tmp/display-:0.log.

Not far from the start, it should say

Navigate to this URL:

  http://myhost:6080/vnc.html?host=myhost&port=6080

Press Ctrl-C to exit

Open that URL in your browser, and you should have access to the X Window session.

In the terminal where you have the container running, enter android_studio, and Studio should start in the browser tab.