IntelliJ idea 14 is worth abandoning Eclipse's IDE artifact

Today watching the news, found IntelliJ idea version out of 14, in the spirit of life is the principle of tossing, download and install.

Of course, it's a joke! As a more senior Android developer, I'm sure my friends won't know Android studio software. It's based on IntelliJ Idea (hereinafter referred to as idea), so we'll see what the original idea looks like with the release of the new version.

Note: We must have confidence, this IDE I started the time only for 2 hours, personal feeling or more suitable for me. It would be worthwhile to spend two hours improving the coding efficiency of the future.

Idea is divided into two major editions, Ultimate (paid) and community (free). You can search, their gap is quite large, the main difference is the support for web development. Although I just developed on the Android platform, but who would say that would not write a JSP or something, in case you want to write it? So I used a functionally more comprehensive ultimate (fee-free software in our case ...). You know, you can download the relevant tools).

No accident, the first run will let the user choose to use the plug-in, the default is open, the next step after the display of the following interface:

Here we have a clear concept, as usual in eclipse, there is a "Workspace" concept, we will put a lot of projects in a working space. In idea, it's completely different. What it does is that a project corresponds to a module, and a module corresponds to one of our projects. However, it is not recommended that a project contain more than one module because files such as output directories are put together by default, which is not recommended by the authorities. In short, it is a project that has no workspace concept.

Below we create an Android app, before you create a project, type Android.

People look at the left side of the type, the free version will be much less, really is a lot. So remind me again, in case of a precaution, if you want to use it.

The next step is to create a project in eclipse that's pretty much the same, no more.

Next screen we need to specify the version of the JDK and Sandroid SDK that you use, and note that you need to select a compatible minimum version here. After clicking on "New ...", we make a selection in turn:

, the last item is the Run option, and we keep the default (the runtime chooses which device to run the app).

It takes a while to wait, and then we can get into the work environment smoothly.

We can see that the overall feeling of the interface is still very clear and concise.

To run HelloWorld, you need to SHIFT+F10.

In addition, for the Android layout, there is a real-time preview feature:

This is not very well implemented on eclipse, at least I have not found this feature, and this feature can be said to be the gospel of the vast number of Android developers.

Not only that, there are also clear hints in Design view for the controls that are not recommended for use:

In addition, if you have used the latest version of Eclipse Luna, you can find the whole black theme, but personally feel the idea of the all-black theme is better. This everyone can choose from file->settings->appearance% behavior->appearance theme for Darcula. It also supports fullscreen display (view->enter full screen), which in this way will be a dark color.

The above for the vast number of developers, especially Android developers an introduction to the IDE, not difficult to get started. After eclipse, a different style of the IDE is a good choice. Finally, we hope that the above content can provide some useful reference value.

IntelliJ idea 14 is worth abandoning Eclipse's IDE artifact