> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 3:41 AM > From: "Eike Ziller" <eike.zil...@qt.io> > To: "Jason H" <jh...@gmx.com> > Cc: "qt-creator" <qt-creator@qt-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Java support? > > > > > On Sep 10, 2020, at 20:21, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > I'm working in an Android/iOS app and while creator is just fine for > > iOS/Objective-C, QtCreator is not fine at all for Android/Java. > > > > I'm wondering how close QtCreator is to being able to: > > * present the java files and classes in the Project explorer (gradle > > integration?) > > I don’t see gradle integration coming. When we’d finished it, Google would > probably switch to something else :P
I guess they already have in the sense that Kotlin is now an Android language. :-( But it seems that Gradle is here to stay. > But you should be able to use a Generic Project for that: File > New > Import > Project > Import Existing Project. (For the language server you should > probably import the module base directory?) > That could probably be made more obvious… like not putting it at the end of a > category with lots of version control related items, and calling it something > like Import Directory or such (there doesn’t need to be a “project” of any > kind). > > > * parse and edit Java code > > > > I'm thinking the language server would do a lot of the heavy lifting? > > The java-language-server would/should solve the “parse and edit” part. > I have not tried it, but probably setting it up as “Start Server per Project” > is required, and probably having the module path as the base of the Qt > Creator project. > Also, Qt Creator still has a specialized Java editor from the pre-LSP times, > which might interfere with the language client, so switching the handler for > text/x-java to “Plain Text Editor” in Preferences > Environment > MIME Types > might be needed to. > > I agree that someone should check this, potentially throwing the old Java > editor away, and maybe Qt Creator can help a bit with setting up the Java > language server too, similar to what we do for Python. +1 _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
