I downloaded the current version of Android Studio (latest as of 4th July 2013) I also downloaded the JDK version 7u25.
However, it displays error after startup: Ple
On Linux Mint 17 (or Ubuntu 14.04):
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Then change the JAVA_HOME env variable.
export JAVA_HOME=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/