AIDEGen aims to automate the project setup process for developers to work on Java or C/C++project in popular IDE environment. Developers no longer need to manually configure an IntelliJ project, such as all the project dependencies. It's a command line tool that offers the following features:
Configure Android Studio or IntelliJ project files with the relevant module dependencies resolved.
Launch IDE for a specified sub-project or build target, i.e. frameworks/base or Settings.
Launch IDE for specified folder(s) which contains build targets, i.e. cts.
Auto configure JDK and Android coding style for IntelliJ.
IDE installation, choose one of prefer IDE, including Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, CLion and VS Code.
Setup Android development environment.
$ source build/envsetup.sh && lunch <TARGET>
Example to generate and launch IntelliJ project for framework and Settings:
$ aidegen Settings framework
Example to generate and launch IntelliJ project for framework and Settings:
$ aidegen packages/apps/Settings frameworks/base
Example to generate and launch IntelliJ project for framework and Settings and skip build time:
$ aidegen Settings framework -s
Example to generate and launch CLion project:
$ aidegen <module> -i c
The native projects will be launched in CLion and you have to select, Tools > CMake > Change Project Root Change project root to the source directory: the relative path which is the directory shown in CLion’s project view. For example, if frameworks/base/media is your project, please change project root directly to frameworks/base/media.
Developers can also use the following optional arguments with AIDEGen commands.
Option | Long option | Description |
---|---|---|
-d | --depth | The depth of module referenced by source. |
-i | --ide | Launch IDE type, j=IntelliJ s=Android Studio e=Eclipse c=CLion v=VS Code |
-p | --ide-path | Specify user's IDE installed path. |
-n | --no_launch | Do not launch IDE. |
-r | --config-reset | Reset all AIDEGen's saved configurations. |
-s | --skip-build | Skip building jars or modules. |
-v | --verbose | Displays DEBUG level logging. |
-a | --android-tree | Generate whole Android source tree project file for IDE. |
-e | --exclude-paths | Exclude the directories in IDE. |
-l | --language | Launch IDE with a specific language,j=java c=C/C++ r=Rust |
-h | --help | Shows help message and exits. |
If you get an error like: "Dependent modules dictionary is empty." or other errors, try a make clean.
Q1. If I already have an IDE project file, and I run command AIDEGen to generate the same project file again, what will happen?
A1: The former IDEA project file will be overwritten by the newly generated one from the aidegen command.
Q2: When do I need to re-run AIDEGen?
A2: Re-run AIDEGen after repo sync.
In IntelliJ, uses [File] > [Invalidate Caches / Restart...] to force project panel updated when your IDE didn't sync.
If you run aidegen on a remote desktop, make sure there is no IntelliJ running in a different desktop session.
If you have any questions or feedback, contact aidegen_tnn@google.com.
If you have any bugs or feature requests email them to buganizer-system+429701@google.com.