I am developing with Android Studio so far. Now I realized that I am able to get a Intellij Ultimate license. I tried to figure out how to activate the 'ultimate' plugins in my Android Studio. But since Android Studio is based on the community edition this is not possible. Or is there any clue do to this?
The other way around: I use IntelliJ Ultimate and activate the plugin 'Android Support'. But then disadvantages appears like missing android studio specific buttons (sdk,avd,...) Is there any way to activate the Android Studio UI?
Android Studio is a separate IDE. It's based on the Intellij platform but its a bit different.
There are plugins like JRebel for Android that are not working (yet) in Idea Ultimate/Community and vice versa.
If you want to use Ultimate only features like database plugin or grails support or something else, you have to accept that not all Android Studio features are available.
You have to decide which feature set is more worth to you.
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I am starting to learn Kotlin and I want to develop a visual Kotlin application for Android, and I am using IntelliJ Idea. I haven't really found any tutorials on how to use IntelliJ to develop visual Kotlin applications, I have found many on how to develop them with Android Studio, but I started with IntelliJ and would rather stick with it than learning a new one. Is there a way to develop visual Kotlin applications in IntelliJ Idea or do I have to switch to Android Studio?
You won't lose anything switching to Android Studio, because it's built on a same platform core as intellij idea.
But there should probably be a way, probably you have to set everything up in:
Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> Android SDK
Then in top menu bar
Tools -> Android you will have an AVD and SDK managers.
Full guide for setting project android up in Intellij Idea
I am using IntelliJ IDEA to develop android app. i am not using android studio because my computer is very poor quality so i am gonna use IntelliJ IDEA from now. But i can't find this section called "Attributes". I can see this in android studio but can't find it on IntelliJ IDEA.I have provided two image. one of is android studio and another is IntelliJ IDEA.
I would like to learn to develop Android apps and I need your advice before broke my current installation.
I have IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 15 installed on my computer (Ubuntu 15). Well, I have some doubts:
Is IntelliJ IDEA + Android plugin the same as Android Studio?
If they are different, can I install both in the same computer?
Could a project created on IntelliJ be opened on Android Studio, and vice versa?
TIA,
Edit: The questions 1 and 3 were solved thanks to the yUdoDis' comment. Their projects are compatible, and although they are practically the same, they have some differences that could be important.
Android Studio and IDEA Ultimate (IU)/Community are not the same. AS is based on the Intellij Platform, but they are different.
That means:
There are plugins for AS that do not run on IU (like JRebel for Android) and vice versa.
You can of course install both IDEs on your system. They have different folders for storing their data.
IU + Android Plugin is not the same as Android Studio. They have different release plans. So the features are not automatically in sync.
As an eclipse user, I am very new to Intellij and also to Android Studio and now I will start developing an app that will be comunicating with a JAX-RS Webservice.
So I wanna know your opinion, shoud I start the development using Android Studio or just stick with the regular Intellij IDEA Ultimate? What are the benefits of each case? What will I be missing?
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has some additional code insight support for JAX-RS which is not available in Android Studio, and it does include the Android development features from Android Studio. So if you already have an IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate license, I would recommend to just keep using it.
I wonder if there is any difference between using the Android Studio, Google offer to use, and use the IntelliJ Base IDE, and install the Android plugin?
Would it effect the project and module handling?
Would it effect facets?
I've been using IntelliJ IDEA 12 for Android projects for a long time. Android studio has a lot of beneficial additional Android integration, such as:
Inline Lint API checks
Drawable and string previews
Better layout editor
Built in Gradle support
Better DDMS integration
But you can certainly just use the community edition of IntelliJ 12 for Android projects, and for production projects, I would say it's preferable at this time until Android Studio stabilizes. Also, I believe IntelliJ 13 will essentially include all of the Android functionality that Android Studio does, from what I've heard.
This is useful FAQs about Android Studio vs Android Plugin in IntelliJ IDEA.
It is clear to me that
The EAP (Early Access Preview) of IntelliJ IDEA 13, which includes all of the Android Studio features except for the redesigned new project wizard and the App Engine cloud endpoints integration, is available now.
http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-and-android-studio-faq/
As of today, Android studio actually functions, so I guess this would be my immediate solution. plus I'm not even sure the Android plugin would support all the features as Android studio will, and that there would not be any conflicts... better safe then sorry.