JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Hello guys,

We are pretty sure that many of you have heard about Github and some are probably using it for your projects. We are excited to reveal the coming GitHub support in IntelliJ IDEA 10 and in other IntelliJ based products.

With a new GitHub plugin installed you’ll be able to checkout your existing GitHub repository and auto-open it as a project or share a project on GitHub instantly.

You can checkout an existing project and start coding in a few seconds!

And once you decide to share your work:

This GitHub integration is available in the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP.

Please note that existing functionality should be considered as a preview and set of features will be extended in the nearest future. See the what we did and what we plan to do in a roadmap. and feel free to share your thoughts about it.

- Develop with pleasure!
IntelliJ IDEA Team

How often do you write XML configurations like that above? How many keystrokes does it take?

This one is written in just moments, with the help of the new completion features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 10. First of all, the IDE completes all required subtags for you, even nested ones. Second, you can use smart completion feature to ensure that the tags you write are in order described in your XML schema.

If you do not know where your new tag should be inserted, invoke the Generate / XML Tag action from context menu, choose the tag you want, and IntelliJ IDEA will generate a completely valid XML structure and insert it in the right place of the document.

Download the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP build and try this in the next XML file you open.

New IntelliJ IDEA 10 EAP build is ready for your testing.

Some noteworthy changes are:

• Improved completion in XML. Smart completion plus new Generate / XML Tag action from context menu.
• New GitHub integration. Try looking under ‘Checkout from VCS’ action.
• In-place introduce variable. Refactor you Java code with no popups.
• Many other fixes and improvements since the last update.

Download the build and enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

By user requests we have added functionality for easy extraction of GSP text to resource bundles. To do this you can select a text fragment, press Alt+Enter and choose the intention “Extract selected text to messages.properties”:

I18nize String dialog will open:

This feature is available in IntelliJ IDEA X #98.231

Now IntelliJ IDEA X is able to debug GSPs. You can set breakpoints and view variable values or evaluate expressions.

Yes, you’ve read it correctly. No mistake here.

It’s been one year since we open-sourced IntelliJ IDEA and announced its free Community Edition. If you are curious to know the results of that bold move and see some stats and charts — check out this article on DZone.

Today, one year later, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition gets a big addition: Android development plugin becomes available in the free edition of IntelliJ IDEA starting with version 10.

Please note we’re NOT open-sourcing something we don’t want to develop ourselves. In addition to improvements to existing IntelliJ IDEA features for Android developers, we will add the following new ones in version 10:

• Android unit-testing support,
• Android Library Projects Support,
• using Maven in Android projects is now possible,
• quick navigation to resources from their usages.

Prooflinks:

• “android -> community” Git commit
• Download IntelliJ IDEA 10 EAP (new build, #98.187 is available)

P.S. Those of us using Android phones truly hope that this will come back in the form of more great apps for our mobile devices!

Develop with pleasure!
-The IntelliJ IDEA Team

Here are some new UI-related tricks which you may find useful:

1. Docked Navigation Bar (View | Navigation Bar) now shows Run/Debug controls if the toolbar is switched off.

2. You may also switch off Tool Buttons (View | Tool Buttons) and get them to appear on demand by pressing Alt key twice (or Command key on Mac OS X).

3. If the new dark tooltips on Mac OS are too hard for your eyes, go to “IDE Settings | Appearance | Tooltip mode” and set it to “System”.

These new features are available since recent IntelliJ IDEA 10 EAP, so try them now and tell us what you think!

We took a longer pause to publish this new IntelliJ IDEA 10 EAP build but there are reasons. Here are some of them:

• New code completion UI, which suggests you the completion variants even before you press the completion keyboard shortcut. You can accept the top suggestion with Enter or Tab.
• A bunch of new refactoring features and intention actions for ActionScript;
• Support for new language features of Groovy 1.8;
• Many improvements in soft wrap and new option for hard-wrapping the line automatically when typing reaches the right margin;
• Server-side file rename and move in the Remote Hosts Access plugin.

See the full changelist with 300+ fixes and improvements made since the last update.

Our IntelliJ IDEA EAP discussion forum is there 24/7, ready for your feedback.

We’ve mentioned the Flash on the Beach conference we attended last month. It was a great event with everything we hoped for and much more. Thanks to all who stopped by! We’re looking forward to visit FOTB again next year.

As promised we’ve ran a raffle of 10 personal IntelliJ IDEA licenses. The winners are listed below:
  1. Brett Jephson
  2. Christof Marte
  3. Conrad Winchester
  4. Gemma Evans
  5. Linas (Ovos media Gmbh)
  6. Mat Janson Blanchet
  7. Nick Forsberg
  8. Richard Guest
  9. Sarah Lewis
  10. Thomas Brekelmans
If your name is in the list, but you have not received an e-mail, drop us a line here.

And in the end of October we’re going to Los Angeles for another great event — Adobe MAX 2010. We’ll have a booth there with IntelliJ IDEA developers, some useful materials, cool giveaways and geeky T-Shirts!

So, if you’re there — stop by and say “IntelliJ IDEA is cool!” pass-phrase for a special ultra-cool prize!

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains Team

Adobe Systems Inc. has recently announced it is stopping further development of Flash Builder for Linux.

If this news makes you uneasy, take it as a great opportunity to learn some new tools!

We welcome all of you to try IntelliJ IDEA as Flex, ActionScript and AIR IDE for every OS, but we aren’t the only ones to do so.

James Ward, a Technical Evangelist at Adobe, has posted an article to his blog in relation to the Flash Builder Linux shutdown, “Flex Development on Linux with IntelliJ IDEA”. James says IntelliJ IDEA is “doing a great job”. He has also recorded a short overview video about using it as your Flex IDE on Linux that we recommend watching.

So, check out the short video below, try IntelliJ IDEA as your new Flex and ActionScript IDE and let us know what you think!

You can download 30-day trial of the latest stable IntelliJ IDEA. Alternatively, you can grab an Early Access build of IntelliJ IDEA 10 which was actually shown in the above video and offers some new cool features.

Develop with pleasure!