Is there a way to tell intelliJ to apply a plugin before other plugins. Or in the plugin API, execute the plugin as soon as Android Studio/intelliJ opens up. I want to execute some tasks(bash script now but could be gradle tasks in a future) when the user opens the IDE. Current solution, the script has to be run before the IDE opens. If the script runs with the IDE already open, it has to be restarted to take the changes applied by the script

I would go with a custom script to run IDE solution. Just write some bash that will execute your custom setup and then start Android Studio/IntelliJ