Use View | Quick Documentation or the corresponding keyboard shortcut (by default: Ctrl+Q on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+J on macOS or F1 in the recent IDE versions). See the documentation for more information. It’s also possible to enable automatic JavaDoc popup on explicit (invoked by a shortcut) code completion in Settings | Editor | General | … Read more
All of the functionality of our lightweight IDEs can be found within IntelliJ IDEA (you need to install the corresponding plug-ins from the repository). It includes support for all technologies developed for our more specific products such as Web/PhpStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm. The specific feature missing from IntelliJ IDEA is simplified project creation (“Open Directory”) … Read more
Gradle cache is located at On Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gradle\caches On Mac / UNIX: ~/.gradle/caches/ You can browse to these directory and manually delete it or run rm -r $HOME/.gradle/caches/ on UNIX system. Run this command will also force to download dependencies. UPDATE Clear the Android build cache of current project NOTE: Android Studio’s File > Invalidate … Read more
File menu -> Settings -> Editor -> General -> Virtual Space and uncheck ‘Allow placement of caret after end of line’ . You may also uncheck the other options in the Virtual Space panel.
If you see that error occur after upgrading versions of IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio, or after generating a new APK file, you may need to refresh the IDE’s cache. Menu File → Invalidate Caches and restart…
TLDR: ⌃⇧F on MacOS will open “Find in path” dialog. First of all, this IDEA has a nice “Find Usages” command. It can be found in the context menu, when the cursor is on some field, method, etc. It’s context-aware, and as far as I know, is the best way to find class, method or … Read more
Here’s how to build a jar with IntelliJ 10 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/08/quickly-create-jar-artifact/ File -> Project Structure -> Project Settings -> Artifacts -> Click green plus sign -> Jar -> From modules with dependencies… Select a Main Class (the one with main() method) if you need to make the jar runnable. The above sets the “skeleton” to where … Read more
The official support page should answer your question. So in your .gitignore you might ignore the files ending with .iws, and the workspace.xml and tasks.xml files.
For IntelliJ 13, there is a checkbox in Editor’s page in IDE Settings EDIT: For IntelliJ 14, the option has been moved to Editor > General page. It’s the last option in the “Other” group. (For Mac the option is under the menu “IntelliJ Idea” > “Preferences”). EDIT: For IntelliJ 16, it’s the second-to-last option … Read more
First of all you should try File | Invalidate Caches and if it doesn’t help, delete IDEA system directory. Then re-import the Maven project and see if it helps. In some weird cases compiled classes may report wrong info and confuse IDEA. Verify that the classes from this jar report correct names using javap.