

You usually remember to do that anyway after you've been trying to track down a bug on a line of JavaScript that Webstorm says doesn't exist for the last two hours. There's a feature in the context-menu for manually synchronising directories with their real filesystem equivalent, but this shouldn't be necessary and is annoying to do. If you have an external tool acting on your project (such as a gulp task or a third-party Git client), what you see in the file browser or in open tabs becomes out-of-date. Your AndroidManifest.The Java wrapper around the filesystem doesn't actively watch for file changes (by, for example, using the fsevents api on OS X), and as a result can become easily desynchronised from the actual filesystem.Paste the following between the and tagsĪndroid:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden".From the IntelliJ IDEA start page click Create New Project.

For more information about IntelliJ IDEA please visit JetBrains website. This tutorial was written for the Mac version, but from what I can tell from JetBrains website, the PC and Linux version are nearly identical.īig thanks to the PhoneGap team, this tutorial borrows heavily from their Getting Started with Android page. Well here is how to get the PhoneGap, hello world app running in IntelliJ IDEA. All of the tutorials I’ve read so far, and ones that I have written, are for Eclipse. The main problem with using IntelliJ IDEA is that most Android stuff assumes that you are using Eclipse and it takes a bit of poking around to figure out how to do the something in IntelliJ IDEA. Even running on my quad-core Macbook with a SSD drive and 8 GB of RAM, Eclipse felt sluggish, but IntelliJ IDEA feels like I have the afterburners on full. It is just that IntelliJ IDEA is so much better than it. Well WebStorm has a Java clone, IntelliJ IDEA. Yet even after discovering WebStorm, I continued to slog through Eclipse for Android apps. An update to this post covering Intellij IDEA 12 CE is located here.Ī few months ago I wrote a review of JetBrain’s WebStorm IDE, which is my new favorite IDE.
