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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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Post by draven »

switch007 wrote: post #25
coldtea wrote: 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)

Another thing worth a try: export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

Worked for me last time I checked (Arch, xmonad 0.11-7, openjdk 7.u45_2.4.3-1, intellij-idea-community-edition 13-1)

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

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Post by lnanek2 »

swanson wrote: post #38

The only feature that really excites me is the Gradle support. Things like the 9patch editor seem horribly misplaced (you probably don't want your devs to be editing those...) and others seem so situational (the autocompleting sdk version - a one line config value that you set once per project). Android Studio is not really usable as an IDE if you want to have a fully featured test suite because of the weird, half-im…

Weird, I know we have Robotium and Robolectric working fine in Android Studio at work. Although some versions do require a separate project, most versions are just sub-projects under a main folder with a shared build.gradle now. Not than any of us want to use it. You are just forced to if you want to use the latest features like AARs with Gradle. Eclipse is unfortunately obsolete and incapable of handling the latest stuff, even though we all used it for years and prefer it.

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

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Post by bestdayever »

swanson wrote: post #38

The only feature that really excites me is the Gradle support. Things like the 9patch editor seem horribly misplaced (you probably don't want your devs to be editing those...) and others seem so situational (the autocompleting sdk version - a one line config value that you set once per project). Android Studio is not really usable as an IDE if you want to have a fully featured test suite because of the weird, half-im…

Like maybe idea 13? That's how we do it at least.

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

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Post by diadara »

anglebracket wrote: post #28
switch007 wrote: post #25

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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.

I had to install kde as I couldn't get matlab working in xmonad. Found out about this fix only recently.

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

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Post by eeperson »

vonmoltke wrote: post #37
jebblue wrote: post #35

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>> Things just work (subversion, Spring, hot swap). The same has been true for me in Eclipse for over 8 years.

Two things that do not "just work" first drove me away from Eclipse: a) git integration. Egit is bad and barely functional. I ended up abandoning it and doing all my git interaction at the command line. I rarely need the git command line with IDEA. b) Maven integration. We use a custom Maven setup that I could never get Eclipse to work properly with; it insisted on using a stock setup that could not build our project…

Weird, I have the exact opposite feeling about git integration. I'm okay with the Egit functionality but I always use the command line with IntelliJ because the git support gives you no way to interact with git's staging area.

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

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Post by sharprazor »

rsynnott wrote: post #31
sharprazor wrote: post #27

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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.

Netbeans' profiling stuff is separately available as VisualVM, and has decent plugin integration with IntelliJ.

Does the plugin version also support remote profiling the way Netbeans does?
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