Open Java applications fail silently on OS X Mavericks

Question

When opening Intelli J or Android Studio after the Mavericks update nothing happens, fails silently.

Java and javac all work from the command line.

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Answer 1

This is due to android studio/intellij is still using the old "JavaLaunching" framework which has deprecated with Java 7. Either you install an End-Of-Life version of JDK 6, or request Android Studio to upgrade to use oracle's JDK appbundle.

I really hate to install a JAVA 6 so I'll have two JDKs on my machine. so I hacked the Android studio files such that they can be launched from the dock:

1. Change the studio (in /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/MacOS) file from a JavaLauncher stub to a shell script, here's how it look like:

#!/bin/bash
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
echo JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
export APP_PACKAGE='/Applications/Android Studio.app'
exec $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -cp $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/bootstrap.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/extensions.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/util.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/jdom.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/log4j.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/trove4j.jar:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/jna.jar -Didea.platform.prefix=AndroidStudio -Didea.paths.selector=AndroidStudioPreview -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -ea -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xverify:none -Xbootclasspath/a:"$APP_PACKAGE"/lib/boot.jar -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xdock:icon="$APP_PACKAGE"/Contents/Resources/AndroidStudio.icns com.intellij.idea.Main

make sure to chmod +x ./studio to it.

1. Remove the java section in the Info.plist file in the /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents directory. Otherwise, Apple will still ask you to install JDK 6: edit the file and remove the whole java section. The diff will look like: http://pastebin.com/QS8M45cr