General Installation
Instructions written in this font
should be run inside Mac Terminal/Windows Command Prompt.
JDK (Java Development Kit)
Skip JDK installation if java -version
already shows "11.x.x" (means already installed)
- Download and install install from https://adoptopenjdk.net
- OpenJDK 11 (LTS)
- HotSpot
- Check if properly installed
- Run
java -version
- "11.x.x" should be printed
- Run
IntelliJ IDEA
- Download and install from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
- Community version is fine
- Install Kotlin IntelliJ Plugin
- Open IntelliJ preferences
- Preferences… → Plugins (on left tab) → Marketplace (on top tab) → Search for "Kotlin" and press install
Git & GitHub
Skip Git installation if git --version
already shows "git version..." (means already installed)
- Install git
- MacOS
- Install Xcode developer tools (which includes git and other useful tools)
- Run
xcode-select --install
- Windows
- Follow this guide on installing both Git and GitBash https://liveoncode.com/installing-gitbash-on-windows-10/
- Linux
- Install using your distro's package manager
- e.g.
apt
,pacman
, etc.
- MacOS
- Check if properly installed
- Run
git --version
- "git version …" should be printed
- Run
- Create a GitHub account at https://github.com