About the Fork

Goal: Have a working, external version of the Bazel Android Studio plugin. Share it with anyone else who might want it!

We've forked only because we found we needed to apply bug fixes to get the plugin to work. Hopefully that's temporary; we'd be delighted to get these fixes into the main repo instead! Indeed, we tried to propose solutions there first, but hadn't heard anything from the maintainers in a while--nor had most users, issues, or PRs, it seemed. Bazel intellij developers, if you're reading this, thank you for the great software you've shared with the world. We're appreciative and would be delighted to delete this repo when the main one is back in working order.

In the meantime, we'll try to maintain this repo as a version of the plugin that works outside of Google. We'll have it automatically pull in the latest from the official repo. If you spot good fixes that unbreak key issues in the main repo but aren't being merged, we'd love it if you'd help keep the fork working by filing a PR or issue here. But new issues should go in the main repo!

Key Issues Fixed:

• Compiler wrapper breaks C++/NDK autocomplete: bazelbuild#2285
• External include paths break when you run a build: bazelbuild#2766 [Now upstreamed via my bazelbuild#4063]
• Blaze icon sneaks through for non-incremental sync: bazelbuild#2762

An IntelliJ plugin for Bazel projects

Installation

To use the fork, you'll have to build it from source--but that's easy and fast, especially since you already use Bazel. See "Building the plugin," below. (Skip the GitHub releases and Jetbrains marketplace builds--those are from the main repo.)

Load it into the IDE via Preferences->Plugins->Gear->Install Plugin from Disk.

[If anyone wants to help with better distribution (binaries, CI, etc.) we'd love it!]

Usage

To import an existing Bazel project, choose Import Bazel Project, and follow the instructions in the project import wizard.

Detailed docs are available here.

Building the plugin

Install Bazel, then build the target *:*_bazel_zip for your desired product:

• bazel build //ijwb:ijwb_bazel_zip --define=ij_product=intellij-ue-oss-latest-stable
• bazel build //clwb:clwb_bazel_zip --define=ij_product=clion-oss-latest-stable
• bazel build //aswb:aswb_bazel_zip --define=ij_product=android-studio-oss-latest-stable

from the project root. This will create a plugin zip file at bazel-bin/<PRODUCT>/<PRODUCT>_bazel.zip, which can be installed directly from the IDE. <PRODUCT> can be one of ijwb, clwb, aswb.

If the IDE refuses to load the plugin because of version issues, specify the correct ij_product. These are in the form <IDE>-oss-<VERSION> with

• <IDE> being one of intellij-ue, intellij, clion, android-studio,
• <VERSION> being one of oldest-stable, latest-stable, under-dev.

Note that there is a difference between intellij and intellij-ue. ue stands for IntelliJ Ultimate Edition and contains additional features for JavaScript as well as Go.

<IDE>-oss-oldest-stable and <IDE>-oss-latest-stable are aliases for the two IDE versions that the plugin is officially compatible with at a given time. <IDE>-oss-latest-stable usually maps to the last released IDE version while <IDE>-oss-oldest-stable maps to the one right before that, e.g. <IDE>-oss-oldest-stable=2022.1 and <IDE>-oss-latest-stable=2022.2. Additionally, <IDE>-oss-under-dev represents the upcoming version of the IDE that we are working towards supporting. A complete mapping of all currently defined versions can be found in intellij_platform_sdk/build_defs.bzl.