How to create a Kotlin console application with Gradle in Intellij IDEA - kotlin

Question

I found this tutorial from JetBrains: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/create-your-first-kotlin-app.html?section=Gradle%20Kotlin
It is dated August 19th, 2020.
I am using the same IntelliJ IDEA version as in their documentation: 2020.2.
However, my project creation wizard looks quite different from theirs.
They provide this screenshot:
But for me, it looks like this:
and when I click on Next:
I don't see where I can choose the Console Application template, or Gradle.
I found a second tutorial - https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/jvm-get-started.html , which shows yet a third variation of the New Project wizard:
Are the tutorials out of date? Am I doing anything wrong? How do I create a Kotlin project, based on a console application template, with Gradle?

Answer 1

The wizard you have seems to be obsolete now. There was a brand-new one, released as a part of Kotlin 1.4 recently(see here). Most probably, the problem is caused by the Kotlin IDE plugin being outdated or something. Please try to delete in and re-install using the Preferences -> Plugins menu. Comment here with the results, please. I'd like to know if this would help.

Answer 2

Indeed it's quite weird, I've never seen the dialog to look like yours (mine looks like the one in the tutorials). However, choosing the template doesn't do anything special - it simply creates the main file, which you can do so yourself.
So create a new project with the "JVM/IDEA" option. If it already opens up a main.kt file, you don't need to do anything else. If it didn't, look in the src folder - you should see a folder named main with a folder named kotlin (with a blue icon instead of grey) inside - here's where you wanna create your main file (right click -> new kotlin file/class -> main.kt and make it a file, not a class). Finally, put this in the file:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
println("Hello world!")
}
Note: if you don't have a kotlin folder, create the file in the folder with the blue icon (might even be src). Also, if this doesn't use Gradle (for some reason), create a Gradle project instead, and at the "Additional libraries and frameworks" option, uncheck Java and check Kotlin, then continue with creating main.kt if it isn't created.

Answer 3

You may create a Kotlin + gradle project from the terminal:
$mkdir myProject; cd myProject; gradle init
follow the tutorial.
And then start the Intellij & open the dir
You're good to go
Same process like this

Answer 4

The same happened to me but I figured out how to fix it:
Just disable Material Theme UI.