Version 13 is very awesome. We've been finishing our intellij plugin and are so close to having it be usable that it could be user ready in like 2 days which will be awesome because then I can spend more time using the new intellij. I'm also glad they fixed the git colors in the Darkula theme.
IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
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Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
#12I wish, they would have a free and lightweight version of the IDEA, so i could use it instead of Sublime Text.
I hear you, IDEA is awesome but quite heavy, most IDEs are today as they are built on languages that run on vms. I tend to have one heavy IDE and a lightweight text editor opened at the same time. That's the best solution.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
#13Other than "multi device preview" I think Android studio has all the features that IDEA13 offers for android developers. IntelliJ is great and I do all my Java/Groovy based development from it, but I'm not sure about buying the license just to go upgrade to 13
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#14Want to like IDEA, but using a Java (Swing) based UI, in both Mac and Windows, makes me always feel like when someones scraps a blackboard with his nails.
I could live with Eclipse though, despite SWT being also quite removed from the native experience. At least it had bloody native text boxes and scrollbars and such.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android Studio is a fork of the OSS IDEA by Google. IntelliJ IDEA is the version released by the actual company and is not affiliated with Google.
IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio FAQ: http://bit.ly/1d7U0Kg Q: Is Android Studio a fork of IntelliJ IDEA? A: No. Android Studio and the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA are built from the same code, and all of the changes in Android Studio are, and will continue to be, available in IntelliJ IDEA releases.
It's a fork in the sense that it's a fork of the IntelliJ repo with Google/Android related assets added. So it's more of a branding fork than a code fork, but since its in a different repo I'd still call it a fork. But it's just terminology I guess.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
#16Want to like IDEA, but using a Java (Swing) based UI, in both Mac and Windows, makes me always feel like when someones scraps a blackboard with his nails. I could live with Eclipse though, despite SWT being also quite removed from the native experience. At least it had bloody native text boxes and scrollbars and such.
I had that feeling using eclipse and netbeans for years before switching over to IntelliJ.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean the open-source community edition that actually exists?
Not really actually. With the free community edition, you only get to manage "java" which doesn't work for me since i work with different programming languages with lots of front-end stuff as well. I meant to use it from editing xml, css, html to configure tomcat settings for example. On the other hand, i totally understand that they want people to buy it for fully featured version.
IntelliJ is indeed java-centric (and not light-weight), but the front-end coding environment is top-notch. I've tried going back to a light-weight text editor (I'm still a sucker for TextMate) but I always come back to IntelliJ. The code completion for HTML/JS/CSS is phenomenal, and the way it intelligently switches syntax highlighting schemes regardless of filetype cuts down on my numerous, numerous typos (for example, if in app.html you write , the HTML, CSS, and JS components will all be syntax-highlighted appropriately). It's also great for XML.
(I also happen to work on an app with a Java backend so it's a no-brainer, and the company's paying for the software...)
EDIT: Just realized you were referring only to the CE, which I've not used. I'll leave this here as a _non-sequiter_ opinion on the paid version nonetheless.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
#18Does the Android Studio canary build get new features before IntelliJ?
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#19Want to like IDEA, but using a Java (Swing) based UI, in both Mac and Windows, makes me always feel like when someones scraps a blackboard with his nails. I could live with Eclipse though, despite SWT being also quite removed from the native experience. At least it had bloody native text boxes and scrollbars and such.
Trust me it has less issues than SWT. Such as https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=13819
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#20I just recently started doing some Java development (despite vowing never to again), and one of the reasons I'm kinda cool with it is Intellij. Intellij makes it way easier. Things just work (subversion, Spring, hot swap).