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Adil Hussain
Adil Hussain

Reputation: 32221

How do I work out what version of IntelliJ a particular version of Android Studio is based on?

How do I work out what version of IntelliJ a particular version of Android Studio is based on? I had a look in the "About Android Studio" window and all I see is the following information:

Screenshot of the About Android Studio window

Upvotes: 4

Views: 576

Answers (3)

Adil Hussain
Adil Hussain

Reputation: 32221

The Android Studio version name (e.g. "2021.3.1") encodes what version of IntelliJ it was based on, as follows:

<Year of IntelliJ Version>.<IntelliJ major version>.<Studio major version>

This is described in the "New versioning scheme - Android Studio" section of the Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0 Android Developers Blog post as follows:

  • The first two number groups represent the version of the final IntellIj platform that a particular Android Studio release is based on (earlier canaries may still be on the earlier version). For this release, this is 2020.3.
  • The third number group represents the Studio major version, starting at 1 and incrementing by one for every major release.

So "2021.3.1", for example, encodes that this version of Android Studio is based on the "2021.3" version of the IntelliJ platform.

Upvotes: 2

Bas Leijdekkers
Bas Leijdekkers

Reputation: 26577

The first three groups of numbers of the Android Studio build are the version of the IntelliJ Platform build that the Android Studio build is based on: 213.7172.25. The first two digits indicate the year: 2021. The third digit indicates the release number: 3. So it is based on the 2021.3 version of the IntelliJ Platform.

See also: IntelliJ Platform SDK > Build Number Ranges > Build Number Format

Upvotes: 6

hamrosvet
hamrosvet

Reputation: 1198

The question has already been answered, but I thought I would add a link to the Android Studio Plugin Development > Matching Versions of the IntelliJ Platform with the Android Studio Version documentation which provides a bit more information.

In short, Android Studio does not mention the minor version of IntelliJ used, so in order to find that the build number can be compared to IntelliJ release notes.

Upvotes: 0

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