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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

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Other 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

The Sqlite debugger is also IDEA13 only I believe.

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

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post #59

I really want to like Intellij since it is so much more responsive then Eclipse, but I can't for the life of me get a working scala set up in IDEA or in the community version. Eclipse might still be a bit of a sloutch, but it works.

In my experience the problem is usually sbt related. I found IntelliJ to work great with scala+Maven.

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

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post #59

I really want to like Intellij since it is so much more responsive then Eclipse, but I can't for the life of me get a working scala set up in IDEA or in the community version. Eclipse might still be a bit of a sloutch, but it works.

What issues are you facing exactly? I've been successfully developing Scala apps since IntelliJ 12 with no issues. It's leaps and bounds better than Eclipse. One thing to note that for sbt-based projects, I recommend generating the IntelliJ project from https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea

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

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post #63
post #59

I really want to like Intellij since it is so much more responsive then Eclipse, but I can't for the life of me get a working scala set up in IDEA or in the community version. Eclipse might still be a bit of a sloutch, but it works.

What issues are you facing exactly? I've been successfully developing Scala apps since IntelliJ 12 with no issues. It's leaps and bounds better than Eclipse. One thing to note that for sbt-based projects, I recommend generating the IntelliJ project from https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea

Getting it to work with SBT. Even generating the project with sbt idea I still can't get it to compile correctly. And I still haven't been able to get it attach a debugger.

I think the current issue is with SBT 0.13 which isn't supported by them right now.

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

#65

Other 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

The Sqlite debugger is also IDEA13 only I believe.

Isn't that the thing that requires the Ultimate Edition? That's why it is not in Android Studio.

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.

That's exactly the reason why I've always returned back to Eclipse. I just hate Swing. It's slow and ugly on Linux.

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

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post #39
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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. Wow it's like different universes. In mine, Eclipse and even NetBeans are far ahead of IntelliJ. The Eclipse maintenance staff has a bit of a cocky attitude but Eclipse is rock solid, mostly. At least, I can forgive its warts.

What do you see as the advantages of Eclipse over Intellij?

For me it's SWT - on Linux it's faster, the look & feel is consistent with the environment, and most importantly - font rendering. Fonts look really shitty in IDEA / Linux.

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.

I had that feeling using eclipse and netbeans for years before switching over to IntelliJ.

What OS do you use? Because Swing is especially shitty on Linux, so I simply can't switch.

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.

NetBeans is Swing, too, and looks quite beautiful and native.

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.

I use it in both environments and have no issues with the L&F.
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