OpenJDK and Android Studio

[Alex Kasko]

On 07/15/2013 06:49 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Did they ever say what exactly those problems are?
>>
>> Would be nice to have at least a bug report from them rather than just
>> scaring messages.
>>
>> I think this is probably a good reason to use a different IDE though.
>>
>> Mario
>> Il giorno 15/giu/2013 08:10, "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org> ha
>> scritto:
>>
>>> An interesting news in I/O is Android Studio, run on JetBrain's platform.
>>>
>>> I try to run in Ubuntu, and got this message. and will jetbrain lead
>>> the graphics in OpenJDK backed by Google ?
>>>
>>>
>>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.3)
>>> (6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~12.04.1)
>>> OpenJDK Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
>>> WARNING: You are launching the IDE using OpenJDK Java runtime.
>>>
>>>           ITS KNOWN TO HAVE PERFORMANCE AND GRAPHICS ISSUES!
>>>           SWITCH TO THE ORACLE(SUN) JDK BEFORE REPORTING PROBLEMS!
>>>
>>> NOTE:    If you have both Oracle (Sun) JDK and OpenJDK installed
>>>           please validate either STUDIO_JDK, JDK_HOME, or JAVA_HOME
>>> environment variable points to valid Oracle (Sun) JDK installation.
>>>           See http://ow.ly/6TuKQ for more info on switching default JDK.
>>>
>>> Press Enter to continue.
>>>
>>
>
> We've never had any bug reports relating to this that I'm aware of.
>
> I strongly dislike warnings like this that scare people into using proprietary
> products without any detailed information and which are prone to rot over time.
>
I think this warning is obsolete. I'm using Idea 12 CE with openjdk6 for 
some months without major problems (minor graphical glitches sometimes). 
To disable pause after the warning this line in idea.sh (line#100 in my 
version) should be commented out:

     read IGNORE


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Regards,
Alex Kasko