IntelliJ Plugin

[Michael Wallstedt]

What is the current state of Android support in Intellij? (as oppposed to Android Studio). There are some Intellij features that Android Studio hides (e.g. settings around attached sources) that I expect vanilla IntelliJ would support. Will the plugin for IntelliJ continue to be maintained independently of Android Studio? Is the current version compatible with the same version of gradle required by AS 0.8.2?

[Siva Velusamy]

There is only a single android plugin, and that is maintained in AOSP.

- In Android Studio, we ship IJ 13.x + latest version of the Android plugin.

- IntelliJ 13.x is in stable mode, so they use a relatively old (very old if you are looking for Gradle support) version of the Android plugin. I believe Jetbrains only cherry picks bug fixes into the version they ship with 13.x

- IntelliJ 14.x EAP channel could possibly use a more recent version of the Android plugin.

The specific version of android plugin shipped as part of IntelliJ is completely under Jetbrains' control. They decide when to merge our changes. Typically, during EAP phase, they used to pick up changes every two weeks, but as they near their stable release dates, they only pick up bug fixes.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Michael Wallstedt <mikewa...@google.com> wrote:

What is the current state of Android support in Intellij? (as oppposed to Android Studio). There are some Intellij features that Android Studio hides (e.g. settings around attached sources) that I expect vanilla IntelliJ would support. Will the plugin for IntelliJ continue to be maintained independently of Android Studio? Is the current version compatible with the same version of gradle required by AS 0.8.2?

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[Scott Barta]

How difficult would it be for users to update their Android plugins independent of the version of IntelliJ? I realize there are potentially incompatibilities between versions there, but as things stabilize, that should be less and less of a problem.

[Michael Wallstedt]

Thanks for explanation Siva. What's the best way to get the latest version of the plugin? Can we just cherry pick it from Android Studio somehow?

[Siva Velusamy]

Sorry, I do not have any suggestions, unless you are building from sources. I'd also recommend filing bugs on Android Studio if you find that it is missing something important that you rely on.