Provide Android Studio plugin via Plugin-Repository

[ajans]

This would tremendously ease the update-process of your awesome plugin as we developers get a update-notification and its simply a two-click process to update your plugin this way.

Here is the official documentation for that:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/preparing-plugins-for-publishing.html

[sockeqwe]

I think it requires a paid jetbrains account to be able to publish the Plugin via Plugin repository.

[ajans]

I just registered there and had a look, it seems to me you can simply register and upload a plugin to the global Intellij Plugin database:

If you open the Repository browser in Android Studio and search for "Parcel", you can see some Open-Source plugins there from indie developers, which indicates to me you could do this.

Please select the category "Code Tools" as it is the most appropriate for your plugin.

[ajans]

Alternatively, you could also host your own plugin-repository and tell people in the Installation guide how to add it to Android Studio (via the "Manage repositories" button).

Example for the JRebel-Android plugin repository:

URL:

https://dl.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel-android/ide-studio/updatePlugins.xml

updatePlugins.xml:

<plugins>
  <plugin id="JRebelAndroidPlugin" url="http://dl.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel-android/ide-studio/jrebel-for-android.zip" version="0.9.46" />
</plugins>

I guess this URL could directly reference the JAR-file downloadable from GitHub, if it is bult according to the IntelliJ-Plugin Publishing documentation.

[sockeqwe]

I will try to submit on official repo this evening. Last time i cheched that (almost 2 years ago) I stucked because of paying for an account. thanks for taking time to check that

[sockeqwe]

Done, plugin is waiting for approve ... Hope to be available soon

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8099?pr=

[ajans]

Awesome, thank you!