JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 has complete support for the Adobe Gaming SDK, i.e. Adobe AIR SDK bundled together with Away3D, Starling and Feathers frameworks.

For those who are interested in developing games using IntelliJ IDEA we have prepared a step-by-step tutorial with instructions on how to set up, build and run sample applications included in the SDK.

Please feel free to share your feedback at our forum and report any found issues to the issue tracker.

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:

Here are some more Flash-related statistics in case you’re interested. (more…)

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

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We are delighted to announce that JetBrains is supporting the try{harder} Level Up event this year. This is an annual collaborative learning conference aimed at advanced Flash developers. The event will take place next week, March 19-23, in Nottingham, UK.

Every attendee will receive a Personal License for IntelliJ IDEA 11 Ultimate!

We believe that our IDE will help everyone to acquire new skills and become more productive. We hope you will enjoy collaborative learning and raise your expertise even higher!

- Learn with pleasure!

Hi, Flash and Flex devs!

We’ve been analyzing feedback from those of you who use IntelliJ IDEA for Flex and ActionScript development. A common problem turns out to be complicated project setup. To address this issue in IntelliJ IDEA 11.1, we have reworked the user interface, all the way from module wizard and project setup to run/debug configurations and AIR Packaging.

We believe these changes will make product experience better for everyone, and especially for the users of Eclipse-based IDEs.

Read on to see what we’ve changed so far. However, this isn’t final, as we count on more feedback from you to make additional improvements and polishing.

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At JetBrains we not only bring you new powerful features that make your life better, but also take care to polish the good old stuff to perfection. Let’s take a look at the Move refactoring for ActionScript classes, Flex components and all other types of top-level declarations (namespaces, functions, variables and constants), that has just got a little smarter. By the way, this refactoring also works for inner declarations (also known as helpers or file-local declarations), defined in ActionScript file out of the package statement.

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Hello guys! Just recently we’ve published an update to our Flash/Flex Profiler plugin that gives you a powerful and easy to use toolset for profiling of Flash-based applications in IntelliJ IDEA.

Let us give you a brief overview of what you can do with it.

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Do you know how to navigate from a class to its test and back again or how to create a FlexUnit test quickly with IntelliJ IDEA 11? Let me tell you.

First of all make sure that flexunit.swc is within your module dependencies:

and just press Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) or select Navigate | Test from main menu:

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I’d like to highlight few useful features in ActionScript/Flex debugger, some of which are new in IntelliJ IDEA 11.

Better members presentation in Variables view (informative icons, sorting) with ability to jump to source:

Convenient collections view (size, Vector status, collection elements):

Mark any object instance and this instance will be highlighted in all views if met again until the end of the debug session:

[SWF] and [UnloadSWF] messages are now filtered out by default. Toggle respective button in Debug tool window to switch the filter off:

Debug with pleasure!

We’re working day and night to bring you more goodies in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5. Here are just a few more of them.

Introduce Variable (Field, Constant) refactoring now has a type chooser and makes it easier to work with untyped array elements (among other things):

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