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We’ve received a large number of questions related to yesterday’s announcement of Android Studio, and we’ve decided to compile the answers in a FAQ post.

Where do I get Android Studio?

Android Studio is available for download at the developer.android.com site.

Is Android Studio a fork of IntelliJ IDEA?

No. Android Studio and the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA are built from the same code, and all of the changes in Android Studio are, and will continue to be, available in IntelliJ IDEA releases.

When can I get the Android Studio features in IntelliJ IDEA?

The EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 13, which includes all of the Android Studio features except for the redesigned new project wizard and the App Engine cloud endpoints integration, is available now. The remaining features are going to be integrated in the coming weeks.

Will the new features of Android Studio be available for users of IntelliJ IDEA 12?

No. The new features (especially the Gradle support) depend on the major changes that were done in the version 13 platform, and we do not have any plans to backport them.

If I’m already a user of IntelliJ IDEA, do I need to switch to Android Studio for Android development?

No. Android Studio is focused specifically on Android development and provides streamlined environment and project setup, but otherwise all of its features are available in IntelliJ IDEA.

If I rely on features that are only available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate (such as additional version control plugins), will I be able to use Android Studio?

No, these additional features will not be available in Android Studio. You should continue using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

Are Android Studio projects compatible with IntelliJ IDEA?

Yes, the two IDEs use the same project format.

Is it planned to support NDK development in Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA?

We have recently announced that we’re starting work on an IDE for C++, and we plan to eventually support NDK development as part of that effort. As for NDK development support in Android Studio, Google hasn’t announced anything so far.

Where do I report bugs?

If you’re using Android Studio, please report bugs to the AOSP issue tracker. IntelliJ IDEA issues, as before, should be reported through YouTrack.

Feel free to ask other questions and provide the feedback here and on our discussion forum.

As you might know the fourth annual Scala Days conference is held this year in New York on June 10th-12th. This event brings together developers from all over the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala, Akka and Play.

We are exciting to announce that IntelliJ IDEA team joins Scala Days 2013 and will present own session “Scala Developer Tools in IntelliJ IDEA: SBT, Play and Scalate“.

In this presentation we will showcase some of the IDE’s trickiest features that help developers to be more productive, and will provide a brief overview of IntelliJ IDEA’s plugin infrastructure for Scala development, including support for SBT, Play Framework and Scalate.

Be sure not to miss our session on Wednesday, June 12th from 11:15 - 12:00.

At our booth you will be able to learn more from our team about support for Scala, which is available for free in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. Our team will be happy to have a conversation and answer your questions.

See you there!

Woohoo! For the third year in a row, the IntelliJ IDEA team will participate in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O 2013. We are thrilled to receive an invitation from the Google Android team to show off our Android support inside the IDE.

We’ve said it before and we will say it again: “This is the kind of event where if you’ve been there once, you don’t want to miss the next one!”

We will have an awesome team on location including JetBrains CTO, Dmitry Jemerov, ready to listen, chat, answer your questions and in general have a great time at the event.

If you are attending the conference, stop by our booth in the Android section. We’ll be glad to chat and to tell you what’s coming.

Aside from Android, we are happy to share with you that the WebStorm team was also invited to the Developer Sandbox by the Google Chrome team for our great integration with Chrome DevTools. The guys will be showing Live Edit and other cool features of WebStorm 6.

While the WebStorm team will be at a different booth than IntelliJ IDEA, we encourage you to stop by and say hello to them too.

There is new EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 available for download. The complete list of changes can be found in Release Notes. We welcome your feedback on IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 EAP at our discussion forum and with bug reports in the issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

Two bits of exciting news for IntelliJ IDEA’s users today. The first one is that the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 is available for early preview. The new build brings many enhancements and bugfixes.

The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes.

And the second exciting news is that you can get 50% OFF if you buy IntelliJ IDEA until the end of Earth Day Celebration. Hurry up!

As always you are welcome with your feedback on IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 EAP at our discussion forum and with bug reports in the issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

We are excited to let you know that JetBrains is joining the 33rd Degree Conference held in Warsaw, Poland March 13-15. Over three days 1,200 attendees will experience 91 sessions from 57 speakers at this star-studded event. Come by our booth and learn more about Project Kotlin and the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.

We look forward to meeting you in person, answering your questions and showing off the hot new features. Be sure to mark your calendar for our two sessions with JetBrains Technical Evangelist, Hadi Hariri.
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We are excited to announce that a few days ago IntelliJ IDEA 12 was named the winner of the Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013, an annual award run by Dr. Dobbs to showcase the best IDEs and coding tools of the year.

“The 12th release of IntelliJ IDEA shows that the pace of innovation continues unabated,,” said Andrew Binstock, the editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobbs and a judge at Jolt Awards. “For once again improving on its remarkable track record of feature development and its history of frequent upgrades, IntelliJ IDEA 12 wins this year’s Jolt Award for coding tools.”

We are proud to receive this award and wish to thank the judges for the honors, and, of course, our beloved users and customers for their support and appreciation of IntelliJ IDEA which has helped ‘jolt’ the industry by making software development faster, easier, and more efficient.

Develop with Pleasure!

Great news for those who are eager to learn more about developing IntelliJ IDEA plugins. In January you have a chance to participate in the second free webinar on developing a plugin from scratch.

The second part will cover the following topics:

• Test our example plugin using our testing framework
• Manage dependencies using our project model APIs
• Show how to write inspections (code analysis), intentions (quick fixes), and saving options in the settings.

Join us Tuesday, January 22, 19:00-20:00 CET (Central European Time). Space is limited, please register now. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.

For those who have missed the first part, the recording is available here.

About Dmitry Jemerov
Since joining JetBrains in 2003, Dmitry Jemerov has worn a lot of hats in the company. These days, in his role as the CTO, he’s focusing on the server-side tools strategy of JetBrains. He also leads the development of PyCharm, an IDE for Python and Django. Writing plugin development documentation was Dmitry’s first task when he joined the IntelliJ IDEA team back in 2005, and he’s put a lot of effort into supporting plugin developers and improving the plugin infrastructure since that time.

Develop with Pleasure!

Over the last year there have been many rumors about death of Flash, just as rumors about its second life, inspired by Apache and new Adobe AIR features. Since the release of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 we gather Usage Statistics, which helps us understand better your real needs and allocate resources correspondingly. The statistics of course does not represent the full worldwide picture, but it lets us analyse how IntelliJ IDEA is used for ActionScript and Flex development.

The good news, as it turns out, is that the number of active ActionScript and Flex developers has been growing constantly. As a proof, here’s a chart showing how many times Flash Run Configuration was started each month:

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Dear Users,

As you may know, we’ve got quite large piece of important functionality shared  between our products. Namely, you can use the same JavaScript, HTML and CSS support features in IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine. As each product has a separate project in the tracker, it might have been confusing for you when your reports were moved to other project, and was sometimes hard for us to search for related requests that are scattered across different projects and subsystems.

The solution we took is to collect all the Web development requests at one project, so now everyone knows where to search.

The new home is http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WEB.

Don’t worry, not a single issue will be lost. All your existing links to the requests will work, you just will be automatically redirected to the new page. But if you use queries you need update them now.

We’re sorry for inconvenience, but we believe that in the end it will make everyone’s life easier. Feel free to ask any questions here or at the forums.

Develop with Pleasure!