title: How to create second desktop entry for preview and stable android studio on Ubuntu
body: <p>I want to install android studio preview alongside the stable version.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Download the .zip into ~/Download</p>
    
    <p>/home/zelongg/Downloads/android-studio-ide-171.4444016-linux-3.1-canary-4.zip</p>
    
    <p>sudo unzip android-studio-ide-171.4444016-linux-3.1-canary-4.zip -d
    /usr/local/lib/android-studio-preview</p>
    
    <p>sudo mv -v /usr/local/lib/android-studio-preview/android-studio/*
    /usr/local/lib/android-studio-preview/</p>
    
    <p>sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android-studio-preview/android-studio/</p>
    
    <p>zelongg@zelongg:/usr/local/lib/android-studio-preview/bin$ ./studio.sh</p>
    
    <p>create a new folder in ~/Android/sdk in case that the newly downloaded
    sdk will affect the sdk in mini project.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>we can successfully run android studio preview 3.1 canary 4</p>
  
  <p>But we cannot create the second desktop entry somehow.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/install-preview.html" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/install-preview.html</a></p>
  
  <p>The 2 desktop entry means: </p>
  
  <p>What I want is that it should show 2 icons for both Android Studio and Android Studio Preview seperately. But now they share one icon in the left bar.</p>
  
  <p>I followed the instructions below, but it doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>To make the preview version available in your list of applications, select Tools </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Create Desktop Entry from the Android Studio menu bar.</p>
  </blockquote>