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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

#21
Is the gradle support really better than in IDEA Community Edition?

Sure I can open the gradle.build file and edit it with syntax colorization but there is no smart auto-completion: you always see a giant list of objects, and not all of them are available.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

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post #4

Earlier 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.

Perhaps it's worth paying for it for you? Calculate how much your time is worth, and compare to how much more productive you would be.

I'm using the free version, since I'm only doing Java, but I truly think IntelliJ IDEA is great[1], so I would pay if there was no free version.

[1]: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/17/programmer-productivity-em...

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#23
post #21

Is the gradle support really better than in IDEA Community Edition? Sure I can open the gradle.build file and edit it with syntax colorization but there is no smart auto-completion: you always see a giant list of objects, and not all of them are available.

The Gradle support is a part of Community Edition. Code completion should be available for dependencies and plugins (available in the Maven central). I've seen a few cases when there were no completion for the artifacts from the local Android repository. It will be fixed shortly.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#24
post #14

Want 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 think this answer could help you: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/24231

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#25
post #14

Want 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.

Java also hates Xmonad (I spent ~30 mins trying workarounds and then gave up, as each time it went wrong, I had to restart my session)

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#26
post #14

Want 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.

Java also hates Xmonad (I spent ~30 mins trying workarounds and then gave up, as each time it went wrong, I had to restart my session)

what was the issue, are you using openjdk or sun/oracle jdk?

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#27
post #14

Want 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.

As someone who has used Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ for years I can say that without a shadow of a doubt that IntelliJ is far ahead of the other two.

The only areas where Netbeans is ahead is built in tools for profiling tools and heap dump analysis, and wizard for visually creating a GUI. I can't think of a single area where Eclipse is better except perhaps number (but not quality) of plugins.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#28
post #14

Want 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.

Java also hates Xmonad (I spent ~30 mins trying workarounds and then gave up, as each time it went wrong, I had to restart my session)

I haven't messed with my xmonad.hs in a long time, but adding

  setWMName "LG3D"
to my startupHook fixed most of the issues for me.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

#29
post #15
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But that ships with IntelliJ IDEA, so it isn't a fork. Android Studio is a subset of IDEA 13.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

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post #14

Want 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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