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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…

Yesterday we published the recording of the webinar Writing Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, where John Lindquist discussed the plugin development process with Mihai Toader. We received a lot of feedback from the community. Getting started with plugin development is perceived to be difficult mostly due t…