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Why the IDE plugin can only be used in IntelliJ Ultimate?
I want to use it in Android Studio for better Android support :sad-panda:
Btw release the plugin separately of the IDE releases :kodee-loving:

&gt; Why the IDE plugin can only be used in IntelliJ Ultimate?
With the platform version lag, it'd take significant extra effort to do the backporting/maintenance for the Android Studio version of the plugin. It just doesn't make sense to spend that effort and time on that right now, given that Amper is still experimental.

&gt; I want to use it in Android Studio for better Android support
For what it's worth, Android support in IntelliJ IDEA should be nearly identical if you have the Android plugin installed. Is there something in particular you miss in IDEA?

&gt; Btw release the plugin separately of the IDE releases
This is being discussed internally, so it might happen sometime soon. It would indeed have some nice benefits for versioning.

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Well, it's been a while since I used IntelliJ for Android; I had problems with it before, and I'll give it another try with Amper. My question wasn't exactly about AS, but rather about having a free IDE plugin available without an Ultimate License.

Perhaps when the tooling is separated from the platform, the plugin can be extended to AS? I don't know how difficult it is to support multiple IDEs and versions with one plugin; I apologize if it's complicated.

As far as I know you can use the Amper plugin without an Ultimate license in IntelliJ IDEA (though I haven't tried that myself in a bit, but it's what the plugin's marketplace page says as well)

Just installed the Amper plugin in the community edition of IJ without problem. Maybe you just have to use the latest version of IJ in order to be able to do so.

Oh, never mind, I just repeated the message that appears in Android Studio without checking it myself. Perhaps the message needs to be updated or directed to the website where the information is complete. Sorry :kodee-loving: