To develop IntelliJ IDEA, you can use either IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition or IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate not older than 2017.3. To build and run the code:
- Run getPlugins.sh / getPlugins.bat from the project root directory to check out additional modules.
- If this git repository is not on 'master' branch you need to checkout the same branches/tags in android and android/tools-base git repositories.
- Open the project.
- If an error notification about a missing required plugin (e.g. Kotlin) is shown enable or install that plugin.
- Configure a JSDK named "1.8", pointing to an installation of JDK 1.8.
- Add <JDK_18_HOME>/lib/tools.jar to the set of "1.8" JARs.
- Configure a JSDK named "IDEA jdk" (case sensitive), pointing to an installation of JDK 1.6.
- If you don't plan to edit modules which use "IDEA jdk" you can configure "IDEA jdk" to point to the same installation of JDK 1.8 as "1.8" JDK.
- Unless you're running on a Mac with an Apple JDK, add <JDK_HOME>/lib/tools.jar to the set of "IDEA jdk" JARs.
- If 'Maven Integration' plugin is disabled add path variable 'MAVEN_REPOSITORY' pointing to '<USER_HOME>/.m2/repository' directory (File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Path Variables).
- Use Build | Build Project to build the code.
To run the IDE from the built code
- use the provided shared run configuration "IDEA".
To run tests apply these setting to the default JUnit run configuration type:
- Working dir:
<IDEA_HOME>\bin - VM parameters:
-ea -Xmx128M -Djava.system.class.loader=com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader -Didea.config.path=../test-config -Didea.system.path=../test-system
To build an installation packages, run ant command in <IDEA_HOME> directory. See build.xml file for details.
You can find other useful information at http://www.jetbrains.org. Contribute section of that site describes how you can contribute to IntelliJ IDEA.