We are thrilled to announce IntelliJ Themes Contest 2019! Create the community’s most-loved theme plugin for any IntelliJ-based IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, DataGrip, GoLand, CLion, Rider, or AppCode, and win a prize! IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 arrived last month with official support for color customization of the IDE appearance, which means it’s up to you to decide what your IDE looks like! You can customize the colors of most of its parts, from toolbars, windows, buttons and icons, to the background, the editor scheme, and much more. (more…)

For a long time, IntelliJ IDEA came only in black and white, with developers advocating for customization tirelessly. Today we have exciting news for you: IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 will become more flexible than ever thanks to Custom Themes! Now you will have the power to design your own theme from scratch, and even better, we’ve made this incredibly easy to do! We’ve created a few brand new themes to get you started. Add more color to your IDE right away by downloading one of the following new themes and selecting it as your new Theme in the Appearance settings! Dark Purple theme (m

Today we’re continuing the series of guest posts from the creators of IntelliJ IDEA plugins for Salesforce (or Force.com) developers. The first post covered Illuminated Cloud 2 plugin. Please meet the 2nd blog post by Michael Shumenko, co-founder of JetForcer. Deep dive into Salesforce development with JetForcer Most people have already heard of Salesforce. This company is behind one of the largest and most well-known platforms for CRM solutions. Today, the company has more than an 18% market share and has surpassed even the giants SAP and Oracle. Every day, Salesforce developers

Today we're starting a 2-part series of guest posts from the creators of IntelliJ IDEA plugins for Salesforce (or Force.com) developers. The plugins are Illuminated Cloud 2 and JetForcer. Please meet the 1st blog post by Scott Wells, the developer of Illuminated Cloud. And do not miss the second post that covers JetForcer plugin. In late 2010, I started leading our product engineering organization in the transition from a traditional on-premise Enterprise-style software model to a modern SaaS-based model. After a short evaluation of existing PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS offerings, we determined

The following is a guest blog post by Mario Zecher from RoboVM In the beginning… Sometime in early 2010, Niklas Therning formed the crazy idea of bringing Java and other JVM languages to iOS. Being a good hacker citizen, Niklas naturally started implementing his crazy idea: RoboVM was born. Since then, RoboVM has grown in functionality, stability and most of all scope: we want to make cross-platform mobile development as enjoyable as possible for everyone in the Java/JVM ecosystem. Back in March 2015, after much frantic work, blood and tears, we reached the first milestone of this goal: R

At JetBrains we rely on many open source projects, and provide a few of our own as well. Six years ago, we open sourced IntelliJ IDEA and since then, a growing number of developers have chosen the IntelliJ Platform to support their tooling needs, including Android Studio, RoboVM, Cursive Clojure, and hundreds of plugins available on the plugin repository. We are grateful to so many people who trust and contribute to the IntelliJ Platform every day. As part of our commitment to supporting the growing number of developers who depend on these tools at JetBrains and around the world, today we a

IntelliJ IDEA 14 comes with a number of nice little additions and improvements for plugin authors. (more…)

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 DevKit. Everything marked with (13.1) is already available in the freshly released IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 EAP. plugin.xml editor It's faster and has new code highlighting and inspection features. For example, you can now see the usages of deprecated extension points: Code completion, usage searc

Thanks everyone who joined us a few days ago and took part in the webinar with Dmitry Jemerov and Andrey Cheptsov on how to build developer tools on top of IntelliJ Platform. In this webinar, Dmitry provides a technical and practical overview of the IntelliJ Platform and explains how you can use it for building your own products. Those who missed the webinar can watch the recording which is now available. Enjoy the video and please share it with your friends. This webinar answers the following questions: What is IntelliJ Platform? Who is it suited for? Why is it better than Eclipse and

This is a cross-post from JetBrains blog to remind you about the upcoming webinar. No doubt you have already heard the Google’s announcement on Android Studio, the new official IDE from Google for Android developers, built in cooperation with JetBrains on top of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and IntelliJ Platform. As you may know many of JetBrains’ IDEs are based on IntelliJ Platform, including IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm and AppCode. Since its launch in 2009 IntelliJ Platform has become a superior tool for building IDEs with the best out-of-the-box experience possi

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 tests for your plugin. The sample code for this tutorial can be found on GitHub. Please feel free to ask questions and suggest topics for new tutorials. Develop with Pleasure!

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 off and focus on testing plugin code using built-in framework, managing project dependencies using project model API, writing inspections and intention actions. Please enjoy the video and share it with your friends! Check out also the sources on GitHub and subscribe to our YouTube channel for ot