We love seeing what third-party devs build on IntelliJ Platform ❤️ If you work with Spring Messaging, check out the AsyncAPI plugin by @PBodiachevskii — explore messaging topology, find producers and consumers, and work with AsyncAPI right from your IDE pavelon.dev/posts/asyncapi-j…

Hacking IntelliJ IDEA — Day 7: Talking to Gradle nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWRNe…

I made a quick Summer 2026 IntelliJ Platform roundup for plugin developers. 10 changes in ~5 minutes: native plugin variants, Starter/Driver testing, LSP API renames, Kotlin UI DSL migration, VFS listeners, and more. Watch: piped.video/5mQixmpezuI

Hacking into IntelliJ IDEA sources nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1nGeLMyzX…

Small update, big convenience 👇 🧩 Plugin descriptions can now be edited directly on the plugin's page. The description is stored separately from the plugin archive, so you don't need to upload a new plugin version to update it. More info plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/m…

Starting a JetBrains IDE plugin just got simpler. The new IDE Plugin Generator combines the IDE wizard and the GitHub template into a single flow. Choose features, preview the project, then generate it in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1+ or your browser. See what changed 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

Everything plugin developers shouldn't miss from Q2 👇 🚨 Internal API usage notifications 🐞 Error reporting guide 🛠️ Updates to your favorite plugin dev tools 🎙️ New educational videos blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

A blog post about open-sourcing the LSP API in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is live! 🧠 😮 Plot twist: the work is also planned for 2026.1.4 stable, so Android Studio support may arrive earlier than 2026.2. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

Too many moving parts in modular @intellijidea plugins? New 🎥: building a plugin with content modules using the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin. Covers optional content modules and gdemos CSS PSI, available for free since 2026.1. piped.video/7fEdrktCYDo

⚡️Plugin Developer Conf is back on Nov 10, 2026, and we’re now looking for speakers! Whether your talk is about building and managing plugins, overcoming challenges, or sharing best practices — we’d love to hear from you. Find more details 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

Plugin authors: if you save through VFS and then hand a file path to a CLI, formatter, VCS command, or Java file API, check this. VFS may see fresh content before the disk does. If the next reader is outside VFS, flush first. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

IntelliJ Platform plugin devs are getting "ErrorReportSink": an experimental API for automatic error and freeze reporting.

Stop asking users to paste tokens into plugin settings! I recorded a video about adding OAuth2 login to JetBrains IDE plugins: browser login, IDE callback, PKCE, PasswordSafe, and GitHub API calls 👇 piped.video/watch?v=Qt8kLAQQ…

Accessibility work in JetBrains IDEs continues in 2026: Windows Magnifier support, improved keyboard access to more IDE areas, and Orca support starting with 2026.2. If these features are part of your daily dev workflow, we’d value your feedback: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

@hszanowski did something unbelievable, just compare how build.gradle.kts looks now and how it was before! Awesome job, thank you

Freeze dumps for everyone? Usually no. But when you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, absolutely yes. If your plugin causes UI freezes for users, you need the right diagnostics to investigate and fix them. The easiest way to collect reports is the JetBrains Marketplace error reporter, but today it does not expose the freeze dumps it already collects. If you think plugin developers should have access to that data, please upvote this issue: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue…

What’s new for plugin devs in Q1 2026? 👇 🚨 Updated plugin approval guidelines 🧩 Revamped “Build Plugins” page 🔧 Fresh tooling updates 📚 New resources to learn and level up blog.jetbrains.com/platform/…

Android Studio finally gets embedded browser power 🚀 This is a big unlock for all Android developers and plugin authors! Embedded web UIs in Android Studio just got a lot more real 👉 tool windows, auth flows, onboarding, browser-powered plugin UX. Until now, Android Studio has been missing a capability that other JetBrains IDEs already have — JCEF, the embedded web browser. platform.jetbrains.com/t/exp…

If you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, open this before making another icon manually. It collects practical icon generators for: 👉 IntelliJ-style letter icons 👉 icon modifiers 👉 badge composition for SVGs Useful, specific, and easy to apply 👇 platform.jetbrains.com/t/ico…

He did this again! 🫣