I'm most familiar with Android, but I would say it's because there is too much infrastructure under the hood. Google seems interested in abstracting away almos

I'm most familiar with Android, but I would say it's because there is too much infrastructure under the hood. Google seems interested in abstracting away almost everything about the framework and build process into the Gradle plugin in Android Studio, to create the illusion of what you're describing. But behind the scenes, all of the machinery if IntelliJ is making that happen. Related question I asked a while back on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24151396/how-can-i-view-android-build-gradle-tasks-from-android-studio http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24151396/how-can-i-view-a...