

This is a commercial product (IntelliJ IDEA Community is open source), but you can obtain a 12-month free license with your cnm.edu email address.

Given the above, our primary IDE in this bootcamp is IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. Actually, that isn’t quite true: Android Studio is essentially a subset of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate the latter includes not only the Android development tools in Android Studio, but also a wide variety of additional tools and features for general and enterprise-level Java development. With some ingenuity, many different alternatives are available however, there is just one IDE officially supported by Google: Android Studio.

For the Android portion of this course, the viable options for a development environment are somewhat limited, vs.
