I'm been working on an app that I'm not sure if it'll be a website, PWA, mobile app or any combination of them. But I ran into a problem linking Android Studio in Windows from my development environment in Ubuntu WSL2. Here's how I solved it.
Up until August 2022, WSL2 wasn't able to run GUI applications without some workarounds. But starting with the Windows 11 Build 22000 the ability to run GUI applications is now all rolled into WSL2.
To allow hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering, you'll need to install a driver to enable the virtual GPU.
To build for Android, you'll need a JDK installed. OpenJDK is the way to go.
Install by running sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk.
Android studio isn't available in the default repositories, so you'll have to add it yourself. Thankfully it's a simple command.
Add the repository by running sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio
After that is done you're ready to install by running sudo apt install android-studio
Android Studio is installed into /opt/android-studio/ you'll need to take note of this if you want to integrate it into your development tools.
To run Android Studio from the CLI, run /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh. But it also is linked in the start menu, under Ubuntu>Android Studio (Ubuntu)
On first run Android studio will have some setup to complete. This includes downloading the Android SDK(s) and Android Virtual Machine(s).
When I first got Android studio running, I was unable to get a basic app to run. Worst of all, there was no useful error message.
Eventually I found out that the problem is the Android Virtual Machine in Android Studio requires access to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (kvm). And the user I was logged in to (the only user I log in as on WSL) did not have access to it.
The fix was as simple as running sudo chmod 777 -R /dev/kvm. After this, I was able to launch my application in the emulator. YAY!