Comment by srcmap

5 years ago

Google must play InteliJ for the Android Studio License use, right?

I wonder how big is that part of the revenue.

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enitihas  5 years ago

I think android studio uses the community (open source) version of IntelliJ Idea, so it should not be a big part of Jetbrains revenue.

mongol  5 years ago

Given that Kotlin now also is first class development language for Android, I think Jetbrains gets plenty of revenue from Android

  • enitihas  5 years ago

    I don't think Jetbrains gets any money directly by the usage of Kotlin on Android, as Kotlin too is open source, and works very well in IntelliJ Community (also open-source). In fact, I don't think IntelliJ ultimate has any extra Kotlin features.

    • snuxoll  5 years ago

      No, but IntelliJ ultimate has more features than Android Studio given there are JetBrains developed plugins that aren’t available in the CE platform.

      Guice support, for example. You can live without it, but if you are working on a larger Android codebase and utilize it then it may be useful.

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