Creating an application launcher icon for Android Studio

This is so simple...

Go to Android Studio > Tools > Create desktop Entry

Here is my android-studio.desktop file. Its working after adding bash -i before program path.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Android Studio
Exec=bash -i "/home/user/android-studio/bin/studio.sh" %f
Icon=/home/user/android-studio/bin/studio.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-android-studio
Name[en_GB]=android-studio.desktop

This has been asked before for IntelliJ. Since Android Studio is the same in this context I will link to the answer and copy it here.

https://askubuntu.com/a/272336/72597

Snippet from linked answer

[Old Answer]

Download IntelliJ IDEA CE from [www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/][3].

1. Extract ideaIC-XX.Y.Z.tar.gz using

   tar -zxvf ideaIC-XX.Y.Z.tar.gz
   

2. Become root.

   sudo -i
   

3. Move the extracted folder to /opt/idea

   mv ideaIC-XX.Y.Z /opt/idea
   

4. Create a desktop file and install it:

   gedit idea.desktop
   

   and copy the following to the idea.desktop file.

   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=IntelliJ IDEA 
   Type=Application
   Exec=idea.sh
   Terminal=false
   Icon=idea
   Comment=Integrated Development Environment
   NoDisplay=false
   Categories=Development;IDE;
   Name[en]=IntelliJ IDEA
   

   then execute the following command to automatically install it in the unity:

   desktop-file-install idea.desktop
   

5. Create a symlink in /usr/local/bin using

   cd /usr/local/bin
   ln -s /opt/idea/bin/idea.sh
   

6. For idea icon to be displayed in dash, idea icon can be added as

   cp /opt/idea/bin/idea.png /usr/share/pixmaps/idea.png
   

That's it. Now, you can launch IntelliJ from Ubuntu dash.

Note that there is an updated version of this answer and I suspect that it might apply to android studio as well.