The JetBrains Blog

From time to time, we pick interesting IntelliJ IDEA plugins from our repository to tell about them in our blog. Today's choice is more than just an interesting plugin: MS Open Tech Tools is a plugin for Android developers developed by Microsoft Open Technologies in close collaboration with the Micr…

I always have a .gitignore file in my Dropbox folder that I copy over for new projects, knowing that any subsequent update to the copy isn't always synced with the original. Of course, it's not always necessary either, but it's something that's always bugged me. Recently I ran across a plugin for…

IntelliJ IDEA is a platform on to which most functionality is provided in the form of plugins. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has all the functionality our other IDEs have (with the exception of iOS/OSX-targeted functionality in AppCode). Each smaller IDE in turn is pretty much a cut-down tailored version o…

Note: This post was written on April 1st, 2014 as an April Fool's Day joke. While this was intended as fun, who knows what the future holds! IntelliJ IDEA is nearing its 14th birthday. We've gone a long way, but what’s next? What will drive product development for the next 5-10 years? To keep …

The most advanced IDE for Java developers, IntelliJ IDEA, is also an open platform that is ideally suited for building of custom developer tools. From time to time we'll be selecting one of many plugins created by the community to feature on our blog. Today we’re going to speak about Twitter’s tool …

In the past couple of months we've been talking a lot about what new features users can find in IntelliJ IDEA 13. Today we'd like to take a break from that and speak a little bit about what it brings to the plugin authors, so this post will give you an overview of notable changes in the Plugin DevKi…

As you might remember a few months ago we have shared the tutorial how to write a plugin with custom language support for IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ Platform. Today we would like to continue talking about plugin development with the new tutorial, which will teach you how to write and run automated …

Thanks everyone who joined us last week and took part in the second webinar about IntelliJ IDEA plugin development. If you remember in the first webinar we were building a tool for generating implementations for Comparable interface using Guava library. In the second webinar we pickup where we left …

Today we would like to share with you a simple tutorial how to write a plugin with custom language support for IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ Platform. As you know IntelliJ IDEA provide powerful facilities for developers to implement advanced code assistance for custom languages and frameworks. In th…

Great news for those who are eager to learn more about developing IntelliJ IDEA plugins. In January you have a chance to participate in the second free webinar on developing a plugin from scratch. The second part will cover the following topics: Test our example plugin using our testing framework…