The recording of our October 8 webinar, Better Xamarin Development with Rider for Mac with Dylan Berry, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. JetBrains Rider offers several advantages over the standard tools for Xamarin developers. We will explore the various ways Rider can help you improve your coding speed and quality so you can ship faster! https://youtu.be/sr48IF3Yp-s (more…)

With Rider, we can create and work with Xamarin projects to develop applications targeting Android and/or iOS devices. We can write code and make use of code analysis, coding assistance, refactoring and debugging features, built-in tools like Version Control and the NuGet client, and deploy and debug our apps on emulated or real devices. In this blog post, we want to provide an overview of how to get started and what tooling is available. And while we'll be targeting Android, keep in mind that targeting iOS is very similar. (more…)

Join us Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Better Xamarin Development with Rider for Mac, with Dylan Berry. Register now! JetBrains Rider offers several advantages over the standard tools for Xamarin developers. We will explore the various ways Rider can help you improve your coding speed and quality so you can ship faster! (more…)

Ionic is a framework for developing mobile apps in TypeScript. Since Ionic can use Angular, WebStorm can be of a great help when working on your next Ionic application. Let’s go through the Ionic tutorial in WebStorm. But first, make sure that you’ve installed Cordova and Ionic and configured your environment for iOS or Android development as described here. (more…)

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