I installed Android Studio via Snap on Ubuntu, and it broke my package manager. Snap creates read-only mounts that conflict with apt, and I couldn't update any system packages for 3 days. I had to uninstall Snap, purge all Snap packages, and install Android Studio from the official tarball to fix it.
The Snap version also had outdated SDK tools, which caused my NetScan Pro app to crash on build. The official tarball has the latest SDK, and you can set the ANDROID_HOME variable to ~/Android/Sdk manually.
If you're installing Android Studio on Linux, skip Snap. Use the official tarball from developer.android.com, and you'll avoid 90% of the setup headaches.
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