Initializing Android build environment in Ubuntu 14.04 is easy and simple.
Have been tested for Jelly Bean, compiled without any errors.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer
sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib32ncurses5-dev \
lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 \
x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z-dev \
libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown \
libxml2-utils xsltproc libswitch-perl dos2unix liblzo2-2:i386 \
libuuid1:i386 libfakeroot:i386 colordiff