Intellij... You weren't the way

Hey there, today I'm going to be talking about JetBrains IntelliJ. You can find their website here.

We picked IntelliJ because we thought it would be the robust path. Though it's new, we read much high praise for it and that it was the future of android development. We knew going in that there would be more support for Eclipse, but really how many problems can an IDE cause?

More than I thought, certainly.

Adding libraries is a key part of the IDE, and it is not at all clear much of the time how we are supposed to do this correctly in IntelliJ. Because all of the tutorials were written for Eclipse, I assumed they would pretty much be the same in IntelliJ, because why would they reinvent the wheel? However, the project structure files are different, so much of the process is different enough to invalidate tutorials. Basically, it's just different enough to cause problems.

I would not recommend using IntelliJ for someone thinking about doing Android development. Use Eclipse. The features are all there. It has better support. And mostly, it's what everyone else uses.