Where do I get Android Studio?

Android Studio is available for download at the developer.android.com site.

Is Android Studio a fork of IntelliJ IDEA?

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.

When can I get the Android Studio features in IntelliJ IDEA?

The EAP 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. The remaining features are going to be integrated in the coming weeks.

Will the new features of Android Studio be available for users of IntelliJ IDEA 12?

No. The new features (especially the Gradle support) depend on the major changes that were done in the version 13 platform, and we do not have any plans to backport them.

If I’m already a user of IntelliJ IDEA, do I need to switch to Android Studio for Android development?

No. Android Studio is focused specifically on Android development and provides streamlined environment and project setup, but otherwise all of its features are available in IntelliJ IDEA.

If I rely on features that are only available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate (such as additional version control plugins), will I be able to use Android Studio?

No, these additional features will not be available in Android Studio. You should continue using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

Are Android Studio projects compatible with IntelliJ IDEA?

Yes, the two IDEs use the same project format.

Is it planned to support NDK development in Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA?

We have recently announced that we’re starting work on an IDE for C++, and we plan to eventually support NDK development as part of that effort. As for NDK development support in Android Studio, Google hasn’t announced anything so far.

Where do I report bugs?

If you’re using Android Studio, please report bugs to the AOSP issue tracker. IntelliJ IDEA issues, as before, should be reported through YouTrack.

Feel free to ask other questions and provide the feedback here and on our discussion forum.

We believe that making perfect tools for developers is only possible when listening to feedback from the community. That’s why we are very much looking to hear from everyone about IntelliJ IDEA 13.

Most of the new features in this preview are about Android development support, and cover the new functionality added in Android Studio. Of course, everyone will find something tailored especially to their needs:

Project Configuration

• Support for importing the configuration of Android projects from build.gradle and building them through Gradle.

Code Editor

• External annotations (nullability, @MagicConstant) for Android APIs.
• Display of additional information (including drawable image) for drawable, dimension and string resources in the quick documentation view.
• Support for gutter color annotations in Java files, as well as showing icon previews in the gutter of Java and XML files.
• Folding of Android string resources in the Java editor to display the actual string value.
• Support for running Android Lint checks on the fly in Java code.
• Many new Lint checks.
• Initial support for editing RenderScript code.

Layout Editor and Preview

• Rendering performance improvements.
• Support for multi-configuration layout preview.
• Support for working with fragment resources.
• Improved the UI for choosing device configurations.
• Device frame rendering in the layout preview.
• Double-clicking a component in the layout preview opens it in the layout editor.
• Selection is synchronized between layout preview and editor.
• Improved display of rendering errors with support for quickfixes.
• Improved support for RelativeLayout.
• Support for zooming and auto-zoom of views.
• Additional selection actions in layout actions bar.
• Support for control variations in the palette (e.g. multiple variations of TextField with different default settings).

Integrated Tools

• Action to obtain a screenshot from the device.
• Integrated 9-patch editor.
• New UI for viewing the list of connected devices in the Android toolwindow.
• Support for filtering by package name in logcat.

Also, if you want to take a look at the source code and the changes, we’ve opened a new repository browser for IntelliJ IDEA Community source code.

Feel free to share your feedback on our discussion forum and report bugs to the issue tracker.

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The guide will include 30 articles featuring different aspects of the IDE, for each day of the trial period for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, our flagship IDE for polyglot development.

We are going to publish the new articles every few days on the official website. Each article will be accompanied with a post here with highlights on the trickiest features described in the article.

User interface for higher productivity

Today we will start with the user interface. By default, IntelliJ IDEA shows you the navigation toolbar, tool window bars and the project view. This is the minimum set of what you can use to navigate around the project files and developer tools.

The navigation bar can be hidden to bring more space for the editor. The tool window bar can be also hidden by clicking the icon in the left bottom corner.

If you want to open a tool window when the tool window bar is hidden you can press Alt (Cmd for Mac) twice.

When you hide everything you don’t need, the IDE looks just like a text editor, a very powerful one at that. You can always maximize the editor by pressing Shift + Ctrl + F12 (Shift + Cmd + F12 for Mac).

Multiple windows

If you want to work with some files in a separate window, just drag the editor tab out of the window and the IDE will detach this tab into a window. You can easily drag your tabs from one window to another.

The complete article about the user interface in IntelliJ IDEA can be found here.

Stay tuned for more articles soon, and develop with Pleasure!

As you might know the fourth annual Scala Days conference is held this year in New York on June 10th-12th. This event brings together developers from all over the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala, Akka and Play.

We are exciting to announce that IntelliJ IDEA team joins Scala Days 2013 and will present own session “Scala Developer Tools in IntelliJ IDEA: SBT, Play and Scalate“.

In this presentation we will showcase some of the IDE’s trickiest features that help developers to be more productive, and will provide a brief overview of IntelliJ IDEA’s plugin infrastructure for Scala development, including support for SBT, Play Framework and Scalate.

Be sure not to miss our session on Wednesday, June 12th from 11:15 - 12:00.

At our booth you will be able to learn more from our team about support for Scala, which is available for free in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. Our team will be happy to have a conversation and answer your questions.

See you there!

We’ve said it before and we will say it again: “This is the kind of event where if you’ve been there once, you don’t want to miss the next one!”

We will have an awesome team on location including JetBrains CTO, Dmitry Jemerov, ready to listen, chat, answer your questions and in general have a great time at the event.

If you are attending the conference, stop by our booth in the Android section. We’ll be glad to chat and to tell you what’s coming.

Aside from Android, we are happy to share with you that the WebStorm team was also invited to the Developer Sandbox by the Google Chrome team for our great integration with Chrome DevTools. The guys will be showing Live Edit and other cool features of WebStorm 6.

While the WebStorm team will be at a different booth than IntelliJ IDEA, we encourage you to stop by and say hello to them too.

Version 12.1.3 contains a number of bug fixes and usability improvements in many areas and features of the IDE. For a complete list of changes see the Release Notes page.

New version is available for download from the product web site or you can install a patch using “Check for updates” function inside the IDE.

IDE’s are no doubt important… but do not forget that it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday!

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The full list of changes in the update can be found in Release Notes.

If you are already running IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 right now, call Check for Updates… action and the IDE will download the update automatically.

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The information about the line separators type used in the currently opened file is available now in the status bar.

Not a big surprise that it is possible to change the type of line endings for the current file via this control.

You can also perform a bulk change. Just select a target file or a directory in the project view and choose new separator via Main Menu → File → Line Separator.

Please feel free to share your feedback on this feature on our discussion forum or submit bug reports to the issue tracker.

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The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes.

And the second exciting news is that you can get 50% OFF if you buy IntelliJ IDEA until the end of Earth Day Celebration. Hurry up!

As always you are welcome with your feedback on IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 EAP at our discussion forum and with bug reports in the issue tracker.

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