<p>December 03, 2013, 3:19 PM Building on a collaboration with Google, software vendor JetBrains has updated its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE (integrated development environment) to offer more capabilities for creating applications to run on Android devices.</p><p>IntelliJ IDEA 13 also features a number of improvements in how it supports the Java Spring framework, which is an essential component for Pivotal's newly launched business intelligence PaaS (platform as a service).</p><p>First released in 2001, IntelliJ IDEA is one of a number of popular IDEs used for writing Java applications, alongside Oracle's NetBeans and JDeveloper as well as the open-source Eclipse. Developers have praised the software's ease of use and intuition in anticipating the programmer's next action.</p><p>Earlier this year, Google adopted the open-source IntelliJ as the base platform for its own Android Studio, a toolkit to help developers build Android applications more effectively.</p><p><a href="http://www.itworld.com/software/385183/jetbrains-builds-google-android-collaboration-new-intellij-idea">Keep reading...</a></p>