Is there a way to programmatically distinguish between IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio

Question

I would like to include different parts of a settings.gradle.kts file depending on whether a project is compiled with IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio.

For my purposes, I only need to know if the project is compiled with Android Studio or not, as certain mobile-specific modules of the project can only be compiled with Android Studio.

Since the modules are distinguished in the settings gradle kotlin script file, I hope to find a solution where a simple if includes those modules accordingly. Thus far I've been commenting out the relevant modules when working in IDEA.

is this any different than https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25324880/detect-ide-environment-with-gradle/64769034#64769034 ? isn't this just a duplicate ? — a_local_nobody, Aug 31 '21 at 11:22
It is a duplicate question, but the answers there did not work for me — Binary Enigma, Aug 31 '21 at 11:43
After searching the properties that ended up being the answer, I found another question that is a more accurate duplicate with the same answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39856122/9869967 — Binary Enigma, Aug 31 '21 at 11:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '21 at 11:19

There are two relevant properties that are set in Android Studio/IntelliJ IDEA:

idea.paths.selector, which in default instalations has a value such as "AndroidStudioPreview2021.1" or "IntelliJIdea2021.2", so you could use this if you needed to know if it was either:

val pathSelector: String? = System.getProperty("idea.paths.selector")
if(pathSelector == null) // Some other IDE or none
else if(pathSelector.startsWith("AndroidStudio"))
// Do Android Studio specific things
else if(pathSelector.startsWith("IntelliJIdea"))
// Do IntelliJ IDEA specific things
else // Some other Jetbrains IDE

idea.platform.prefix, which seems to only be set for Android Studio, with a value of "AndroidStudio", so it works for my case:

if(System.getProperty("idea.platform.prefix") == "AndroidStudio")
   // Do Android Studio specific things
else // Any other IDE or none

Thank you @Konstantin Annikov for notifying me about another similar question that was never fully answered but was on the right track (using properties)

Is there a way to programmatically distinguish between IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio

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