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Guys from YouTrack are working pedal to metal to release a new version of their fastest bug tracker. Just today they have published its roadmap, which is surely worth checking out: new features, improvements,—a very comprehensive overview of what you can expect from the future YouTrack release. You may as well read the official YouTrack site for more information, demos, docs, and other interesting reading.

Flash on the Beach, to be more exact, and you’re most welcome to see us there!

Our booth is open Sept 26-29, and we’ll be showing live all that what makes IntelliJ IDEA a perfect choice for Flex development. New features, improvements, tiny bits that make it all work exactly the way you need—in a series of demos from guys who made it all work.

Cozy, friendly atmosphere, first-hand information from our Flex team and, much more—not to mention that we’ll also host a lotto-quiz where everyone have a chance to win their very own IntelliJ IDEA licenses!

See you there with pleasure!

As you already know, we are working on GSP editing improvements in IntelliJ IDEA X. In particular, now the editor knows about the variables that the controller supplies to the view.

Example:

Consider an action returning a bookList variable:

And the corresponding GSP file has access to this variable:

Rename, completion and find usages work as they should.

ActionScript/Flex development support in IntelliJ IDEA eventually gets closer to the unbeaten level of its Java assistance. Today it’s time to Extract Interface and Superclass.

Let’s illustrate this feature on a simple example…

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DevCon London 2010 Screencast Contest and JAX London 2010 Screencast Contest at JetBrains TV are over.

Big thanks to all participants who all get their well-deserved passes, namely:

• Anton Arhipov gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Column Mode Editing with IntelliJ IDEA
• Dmitry Kandalov gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Regexp Matching and Clipboard Comparison AND Coding Outside-In Using Intentions (both with IntelliJ IDEA.)
• Dmitry Nesteruk gets a pass to DevCon London 2010 for Inferring Types from Usage (with ReSharper.)
• Michał Gibowski gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Navigation Made Easy, Adjusting Workspace and Refactorings (with IntelliJ IDEA.)
• Stefan Lieser gets a pass to DevCon London 2010 for Using ‘Search with Pattern’ to change old style Assert.AreEqual to new style Assert.That (with ReSharper.)

To get your passes, please drop a line to Jura dot Gorohovsky at jetbrains dot com, and I’ll provide you with registration guidelines.

Once again, thumbs up for taking part in the contest and for helping us fill JetBrains TV with valuable content. We hope you’ll keep it up like this because thousands of JetBrains product users can learn something new from your videos.

Note to everyone: if you haven’t yet submitted a screencast to JetBrains TV, you’re pretty much welcome to do that anytime, and we’ll be happy to help you promote it among our users.

The IntelliJ IDEA development process goes on as usual - another week, another EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA X. This time, we’ve like to highlight the following new features:

• Analyze | Infer Nullity… automatically analyzes the code in a given scope and adds @Nullable and @NotNull annotations to method parameters and return values according to the actual logic of the code;
• Hide Frames from Libraries option in the debugger Frames view allows to hide library code from the displayed call stacks;
• WSDL support has been significantly enhanced.

As usual, you can find the list of almost 150 other bugfixes and improvements in the Release Notes.

If you are developing an application for Spring tc Server, you may be interested in tc Server Support plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. (more…)

An Android library project is a development project that holds shared Android source code and resources. Other Android application projects can reference the library project and, at build time, include its compiled sources in their .apk files. IntelliJ IDEA X supports library projects natively as separate Android library modules.

To create a new library module you need to choose a platform and specify a package:

Application module has to depend on library modules to refer to their resources and source code. Scope of this dependency should be Compile. You can refer to library resources from your application module, as they are located in the same module. Note that you can change a module type (Application or Library) in Android facet settings:

With IntelliJ IDEA X you can write unit tests for your Android application using Android Testing Framework. Android unit tests are located in a separate test module, so first you need to add it (i.e. named tests) to your project, which must already contain an Android module (or module with Android facet) (i.e. named MyAndroidApp). Then, specify this tested module:

IntelliJ IDEA will automatically create a sample test class for your main activity (i.e. MyActivityTest). It’s handy that you can launch tests directly from editor. Note that it is important to choose an item with Android-specific icon for launching tests by Android Tests run configuration rather than using a default JUnit configuration:

Also, after adding a test module to project, IntelliJ IDEA automatically creates run configuration for launching all tests in module:

Note, that scope of a dependency between Test module and Application module should be Provided.