ant build vs build

>I simply wire up the Build function (hotkey and menu function within IDEA) so that it kicks off an Ant build?
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Add your build.xml to Ant toolwindow, then find the target that is used as an entry point for the build, right-click on it and
choose "Assign Shortcut".

What is the overall psychology behind Ant integration being handled so separately within IDEA?

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Could you please elaborate?


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Hello Anthony,

I am doing some development using Google's Android phone SDK, and it
generates a build.xml file.

http://code.google.com/p/idea-android/

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Thanks, Dmitry... I had not heard of this new plugin.

edit: dang I guess I have to upgrade to IDEA 7.0
That hurts, but frankly, you guys make such a great tool and your being on top of little extras such as this makes it worthwhile.

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Anthony Lovell

For IntelliJ is there a way to turn the internal build with ant off?  We use maven anyway.  The old way seemed superior for my use cases.  Before, after importing a project from a maven model, I could build and it would show everywhere main or test that had an issue from a simple change.  Now with this ant build internally, it stops at the first code module when there is an error.  Before I would have used the compiler/build tool before to determine scope of changes before making them - when not using built in refactoring tools. Now that's broken.  I am using the most up to date version I believe, 2020.3.2 and the whole suite.   For me, this 'update' is absolutely a change for the worse.  BTW the Maven integration is still awesome.  The Gradle integration was coming along and good too last time I used it. 

IntelliJ IDEA doesn't use Ant to build.