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.

Opening

Answer 1

I had java 1.7 but none of the above worked or matched my problem log. Starting Android Studio silently failed. I reverted to java 1.6, same behaviour and both had the same error log (see below).

My error log showed:

android studio taskgated failed to get signing info for  (cannot make code: invalid signature (code or signature have been modified))

Most answers on StackOverflow to that particular error log is that you have to "Allow applications downloaded from anywhere" in Security & Privacy.

Then I saw what @jmcejuela did and that worked quite well and I edited

/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/Info.plist 

and changed

1.6*

to

1.7*

My environment:

• Android Studio 0.4.2
• java version "1.7.0_45"
• OSX Version 10.8.5