Install IntelliJ IDEA on Linux Mint 20

Steps to install Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.3 on Linux Mint 20, tested on VirtualBox.

 

IntelliJ IDEA is a cross-platform IDE on the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. It is available in the following editions:

• Community Edition is free and open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0. It provides all the basic features for JVM and Android development.
• IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is commercial, distributed with a 30-day trial period. It provides additional tools and features for web and enterprise development.

To install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition on Linux Mint:

Visit: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

Download .tar.gz of Community Edition.

Extract the tarball to a directory that supports file execution.
For example, to extract it to the recommended /opt directory, run the following command:

$ sudo tar -xzf <downloaded file> -C /opt

Execute the idea.sh script from the extracted directory to run IntelliJ IDEA. or add a program launcher to Linux Mint Menu to run idea.sh.

ref: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/installation-guide.html

Install JetBrains Toolbox App on Linux, and also Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE)

JetBrains Toolbox App is a lightweight cross-platform companion application for JetBrains' coding tools, to manage installed tools, download new ones and open recent projects.

System requirement to install Toolbox App for Linux:
64-bit x86, glibc 2.17 (Ubuntu 14.04 or newer). JetBrains Toolbox App is packaged in AppImage and requires FUSE to run.

To check the version of your glibc, it's a simple method, using ldd command in Terminal:
$ ldd --version

It will show something like this:
ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1) 2.27

To install and set FUSE, follow the steps in AppImage Wiki.

For Ubuntu, enter the commands in Terminal:

$ sudo apt install fuse
$ sudo modprobe fuse
$ sudo groupadd fuse
$ user="$(whoami)"
$ sudo usermod -a -G fuse $user

Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/app/ to download the, currently it's version 1.13.

This video show how to Install JetBrains Toolbox App on Linux Mint 19.1

Install Android 3.3.1 on Linux Mint 19.1 with JetBrains Toolbox, Hello World and convert Java to Kotlin.

IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE) with JetBrains Toolbox.

Remote debug web page on Android with Chrome DevTools

This video show how to remote debug web page on Android from PC, with Chrome DevTools.


In order to remote debug on Android device, you have to enable Developer options and USB debugging on your Android device.

details: Google Developers > Chrome DevTools > Remote Debugging Devices

FREE Visual Studio Community 2013, code for Windows, Android, and iOS.

Visual Studio Community 2013 is a new edition that enables you to unleash the full power of Visual Studio to develop cross-platform solutions. Create apps in one unified IDE. Get Visual Studio extensions that incorporate new languages, features, and development tools into this IDE. (These extensions are available from the Visual Studio Gallery.) Find out more details about Visual Studio Community 2013 here.

Introducing Visual Studio Community 2013

Run Systrace in Android-Eclipse

The Systrace tool helps analyze the performance of your application by capturing and displaying execution times of your applications processes and other Android system processes. The tool combines data from the Android kernel such as the CPU scheduler, disk activity, and application threads to generate an HTML report that shows an overall picture of an Android device’s system processes for a given period of time.

The Systrace tool is particularly useful in diagnosing display problems where an application is slow to draw or stutters while displaying motion or animation. For more information on how to use Systrace, see Analyzing Display and Performance.


Keyboard shortcuts that are available while viewing a Systrace trace HTML report.

Install Oracle JDK 8 on Ubuntu 14.04

This post describe how to download and install Oracle JDK 8 on Ubuntu 14.04, and also update alternatives to correct the links.

Download Oracle JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.

Accept License Agreement and download the corresponding .tar.gz file, jdk-8u11-linux-i586.tar.gz in my case.

Unpack the downloaded tarball (.tar.gz) and move unpacked folder to where you want, /home/u/jdk1.8.0_11/ in my case.

Run the following commands in terminal to update the alternatives of javac and java. Where /home/u/jdk1.8.0_11/ is the installed folder of jdk.

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /home/u/jdk1.8.0_11/bin/javac 1
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /home/u/jdk1.8.0_11/bin/java 1

$ sudo update-alternatives --config javac
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java

After installed and setup

Step-by-step:

Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK) is available now

Starting today, the Google Cast SDK is available for developing and publishing Google Cast-ready apps.

The Google Cast SDK is simple to integrate because there’s no need to write a new app. Just incorporate the SDK into your existing mobile and web apps to bring your content to the TV. You are in control of how and when you develop and publish your cast-ready apps through the Google Cast developer console. The SDK is available on Android and iOS as well as on Chrome through the Google Cast browser extension. ~ source: Google Developers Blog

This episode provides a brief overview of the Google Cast SDK model, components and how you can get started.

Google Cast SDK Overview

Build native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Google introduce early developer preview of a toolchain to build native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework.

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The toolchain wraps your Chrome App with a native application shell and enables you to distribute your app via Google Play and the Apple App Store. We provide a simple developer workflow for packaging a Chrome App natively for mobile platforms. You can run your Chrome App on a device or emulator using the command-line or an IDE. Alternatively, you can use the Chrome Apps Developer Tool to run your app on an Android device without the need to install an IDE or the mobile platform’s SDK.

Soure: Chromium Blog: Run Chrome Apps on mobile using Apache Cordova

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