jzyhywxz/FlowTracker

FlowTracker is a pulgin for IntelliJ IDEA, which can capture the interaction activities of developers with using IDEA and recognize developers' flow states based on these captured interaction activities.

FlowTracker

FlowTracker is a pulgin for IntelliJ IDEA, which can capture the interaction activities of developers with using IDEA and recognize developers' flow states based on the captured interaction activities.

Structure

This repository consists of two project: one is flow-tracker and another is subjective-flow-questionnaire.

The flow-tracker project products a plugin named FlowTracker for IntelliJ IDEA. This plugin is developed follow the IntelliJ Platform SDK, which can only capture interaction activities dispatched from the IntelliJ Event Queue and cannot capture anything out of IDE.

The subjective-flow-questionniare project products a questionnaire to sample developers' subjective flow experience. This questionnaire is packed into a independent jar package, which is used as a dependency library for the flow-tracker project. The reason for this is that, there will be Chinese scrambling problem when the questionnaire is directly implemented in the flow-tracker project, but the Chinese can be displayed normally after the questionnaire is packed into a jar package.

IDE Support

FlowTracker is compatible with IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1, 2018.2, 2018.3 and 2019.1;

It is also compatible with Android Studio with version >= 3.2.

Installation

To install the FlowTracker plugin in IntelliJ IDEA, you can follow the following steps:

1. Check the version of your IDE against the versions listed above;
2. Dowload the binary of FlowTracker plugin from flow-tracker/plugin/flow-tracker-1.0.0.zip;
3. [Optional] You can build the plugin from source code following the steps introduced below;
4. Open your IDE, following File, Settings..., Plugins, Install Plugin from Disk..., select the zip file of plugin, OK;
5. Restart your IDE, FlowTracker is working now and have a good time!

Building Plugin from Source Code

If you want to build FlowTracker from the source code, please follow the following steps:

1. Create a plugin development project follow the office tutorial;
2. Checkout the source code from this repository;
3. Import lib/, src/ and build.gradle from the flow-tracker project into your project;
4. Use gradle to build FlowTracker plugin.