Now a third-party developer has created an unofficial Warpinator app for Android, allowing you to quickly and easily transfer files between Android and Linux phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices.

In addition to the core tools, several libraries can enhance your Android app development experience on Linux: SQLite: An embedded database for storing data locally in Android apps.

A lead software engineer at Ubuntu-maker Canonical has released a tool to run Android apps on Linux desktops without using emulators.

Here's how you can install the Android Jelly Bean theme in Linux Mint 13 or Ubuntu 12.04.

Now he's made an even bigger breakthrough and gotten Android apps to work on any desktop OS that Chrome runs on. You can now run Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.