IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 is Out!

Spring is here, or it's supposed to be at least. The Java Advocacy Team here at JetBrains decided to create a Spring application, so we could explore what that looked like and create some content for you as well. Project blossom is now in full swing, so you'll see lots of Spring-related content in this version of Annotated Monthly. This project is also largely responsible for the Great Java Versio

We have created and published the IntelliJ Platform UI Kit to help designers and developers design and prototype plugins in a manner consistent with IntelliJ-based products. The IntelliJ Platform UI Kit consists of: Getting StartedComponentsTypography and Color StylesIntelliJ Icons Plugin Getting Started See the Getting Started section in the IntelliJ Platform UI Kit Figma file

The new improved EAP version of the language packs for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA and other IntelliJ-based IDEs is out today. As we continue localizing the UI of our IDEs, we’d also like to mention the Translation plugin incorporating translation capabilities into the Editor of the IDEs. JetBrains Language Packs for the IntelliJ-based IDEs We’ve localized all of the UI, with the exception of inspect

We'd like to introduce you to our fresh new IntelliJ IDEA Guide! We've been working on this in the background for a few months now by collecting tips and even taking some of our screencasts from YouTube and turning them into tutorials for our guide.

As you know, two of the most popular basic refactorings that IntelliJ IDEA offers are Extract Method and Inline Method. The first makes the method shorter and more readable, while the other minimizes the number of unneeded methods, and makes the code more straightforward. In IntelliJ IDEA you can use both these actions in a row to achieve a more complex result – we call this process multistep refa

There are lots of features in IntelliJ IDEA that can help you to focus and maximize your productivity. A big factor in helping your productivity can come from how the UI and, more importantly, your code are presented to you. There are many scenarios: reading and analyzing code to understand something, editing statements to change the behavior slightly, writing a big chunk of the implementation, c

The Project tool window shows you the tree of your application along with its dependencies. It also allows you to create new classes, files, and folders, add frameworks, rename and relocate items, and so on. In IntelliJ IDEA, there are several options that can make your work with the Project tool window even more convenient. Let’s take a look at them. (more…)

Images are a great way to personalize anything. Recently, a gif showing a customized IntelliJ IDEA caught my attention (here's its screenshot). It included a custom inspection with an avatar based on one of my very dear friends, Chandra Guntur, posted by another dear friend, Sirisha Pratha: This was a perfect opportunity for me to invite Sirisha to talk about how she has been customizing IntelliJ

We’ve brought a brand new feature to JetBrains Marketplace – Plugin Ideas! It’s a place for sharing ideas for plugins and functionality missing from IntelliJ-based IDEs. If you like any of the ideas you can cast your vote on them to help them get the attention of plugin developers and even add your own feedback on what you would like to see. Let’s take a look into the details of how it works! Bac

Update 12 of the Big Data Tools plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional, and DataGrip has been released. You can install it from the JetBrains Plugin Repository or from inside your IDE. The plugin allows you to edit Zeppelin notebooks, upload files to cloud filesystems, and monitor Hadoop and Spark clusters. In this release, we've added experimental Python support and global search