How to run Oracle SQL Developer on M1/M2

!EDIT!: You no longer have to do the below steps. SQL Developer is natively available for Apple Silicon macs which can be downloaded from https://www.oracle.com/database/sqldeveloper/technologies/download/

Downloading and running SQL Developer on an ARM M1/M2 Mac with Apple Silicon is not straightforward, at least as of this writing. However, you can make it run like this.

1. Download the SQL Developer from the official Oracle website: https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/sqldev-downloads.html
2. Extract the app and move it into your Applications
3. Install openjdk8 using brew brew install openjdk@8
4. Export both APP_JAVA_HOME and JAVA_HOME.
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/opt/openjdk@8
export APP_JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/opt/openjdk@8
5. Check whether your Java installation is successful by doingjava -version
   It should return something like below
   openjdk version “1.8.0_302”
   OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_302-bre_2021_08_14_21_34-b00)
   OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.302-b00, mixed mode)
6. Now finally run this command. arch -x86_64 /Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/MacOS/sqldeveloper.sh

You should see SQL Developer now launching without any problems!

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