# Android Development on a Pixelbook

DevFeed: [Android Development on a Pixelbook](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/android-development-on-a-pixelbook-30588.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2018/06/android-development-on-a-pixelbook/>)

Published: 2018-06-20T21:00:01Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [Android Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-studio.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [adb](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/adb.md>)

Tags: [adb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adb.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-development.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [openjdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openjdk.md>)

## AI overview

A step-by-step guide to setting up Android Studio and Android development on a Google Pixelbook, including Developer Mode, Linux app support, required libraries, installation, and ADB debugging.

## Source excerpt

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Google Pixelbook. I've been doing a bit of Android Development on it, mostly to optimize Pigment for Chromebooks. It's taken some experimentation and discovery to find out how to get things set up, largely because the Android documentation is slightly out of date, so I thought I would share my experience, hopefully saving others time. This post serves as a step by step guide to getting up and running with Android Studio on a Pixelbook (and, hopefully, other Chromebooks as well). I plan to write a full review once I've had some more time to kick the tires.