how to update android studio to java 1.8

(Related to the above point): I actually de-installed and re-installed Android Studio (although it's just a folder to be decompressed, nothing really 'installs') but it still gives the error message.I installed Android Studio while I still had the 1.7 Java version on my pc, which could have caused this problem.I'm pretty that my already set as default the 1.8 version, not the 1.7 (I used the sudo update-alternatives -config java command.How do I make Android Studio notice that I updated my Java version? Some notes: So the problems seems to be related to Android Studio, not Ubuntu. 'I cannot compile due to the fact that Java 1.8 version is needed' (sorry if i don't have the precise message. So after many troubles I'm 99.9% sure Java has been updated on the OS (if I type java -version on terminal, it gives me Java version 1.8.0_101)īut Android Studio, which is the principal reason for my updating the JDK, still gives and error like I updated Java, JDK ( javac and so on) on my Ubuntu 14, trying out various methods (for which I asked this question).

How to update android studio to java 1.8