Two months ago Google rolled out Android Studio, their brand new IDE for Android developers. The new IDE, built on top of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, has replaced ADT, a plugin for Eclipse, changing "developer experience" for millions of Android developers. As a member of the IntelliJ IDEA crew, I couldn't miss a chance to discuss this "small revolution" with one of the Googlers behind it – meet Tor Norbye. Andrey: Before joining the ADT team at Google, where you’re working with Eclipse, you’ve also had quite a lot of experience with NetBeans at Sun Microsystems. I'm sure you know a lo

We are pleased to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 12 will support new features of Adobe AIR SDK 3.4. They are designed to simplify iOS apps development process: Run/debug AIR applications on iOS Simulator (Mac OS X only) Debug iOS apps on device both over USB or network Single-click iOS app deployment to the device without the need to manually install it using iTunes (more…)

The recent EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 introduces a new presentation of Android platform inside a project. Previously, you could configure Android SDK inside Android facet settings, while JDK played the role of the main Project/Module SDK. IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 considers Android platform itself as a Project/Module SDK: Thus, the standard JDK jars aren't included to the classpath of your Android module. So, the IDE will not complete the java classes which are not supported by the Android platform anymore. Also, the usages of such classes will be correctly highlighted as errors: Note, that in add