Installing PlatformIO in Google Antigravity

I’ve been tinkering with Google’s Antigravity IDE, which is believed to be a fork of Windsurf AI, which is a fork of Microsoft VSCode. One of the things that has been aggravating me is that PlatformIO doesn’t seem to have a presence on Open VSX Registry, the open source extension market place that many VSCode IDE’s use to get extension. There is an outdated version, uploaded by a third party, that will not install/load correctly. After digging around and trying a bunch of things, I finally got PlatformIO to install.

CAUTION: Installation is simple, but I haven’t actually tried it out with any esp32 boards yet. Platformio installed, but BUT IT MAY NOT WORK AS INTENDED! It may not compile correctly, it may not upload to the board, it may not run correctly. Once I compile a simple program for my Cheap Yellow Display, and and upload it through PlatformIO/Antigravity, I will update this post.

Ok here’s how I did it:

Go to microsoft/vscode-cpptools github release page. Select your OS version of cpptools-(your OS).vsix File, and download it. Make sure the extension is ‘vsix’

Next, go to platformio/platformio-vscode-ide github release page. Select the latest version of platformio-ide-(version).vsix, and download it.

Launch Antigravity, and click Extension button on the left side (or hit CTRL+SHIFT+X). Click the 3 dots at the top (…), and choose ‘Install from VSIX’. In the File Selection dialog, select the cpptools-(your OS).vsix file, and click install. When it’s finished installing, do the same thing for platformio-ide-(version).vsix.

It should install with no issues.

If anyone follows these directions, and is able to use PlatformIO to successfully program a esp32 board, leave a comment, I would appreciate it.