Xcode 4+
Developer Tools
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun.
Xcode includes a world-class code editor with an on-device machine learning model trained for Swift and Apple SDKs, a built-in preview tool that shows the UI of your app as you modify code, and a powerful debugger with conditional breakpoints.
Xcode also includes companion tools to help you rapidly prototype and test your app. Simulator enables rapid prototyping and testing your app in a simulated environment when a real device isn’t available. Instruments helps you profile and analyze your app, improve performance, and investigate system resource usage. And you can use Reality Composer Pro to create 3D content, train custom machine learning models with Create ML, and identify potential accessibility issues with Accessibility Inspector.
To test or run applications on an Apple device, all you need is a free Apple ID. To submit your apps to the App Store you must be a member of the Apple Developer Program. Some features may require Internet access and may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.
What’s New
Version 16.0
Xcode 16 includes Swift 6 and SDKs for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and macOS Sequoia.
• Predictive code completion boosts your productivity when writing Swift code, using a code intelligence model that keeps your code private and works even when you’re offline
• Swift 6 makes it even easier to write safe concurrent code with a new language mode that analyzes your code at compile-time and diagnoses possible data races
• Swift Testing simplifies writing tests with features like parameterization to run the same test over a series of values, and tags to flexibly organize your tests
• Previews can share environments or data across your app and use property wrappers within preview blocks
• Explicit Modules provides better build parallelism, better diagnostics, and faster debugging
• Unified backtrace view shows relevant code from all stack frames in a single view
• Thread Performance Checker surfaces runtime issues and performance problems, including diagnostics to identify excessive disk writes
• RealityKit Debugger captures snapshots of a running visionOS app entity hierarchy to explore it in 3D
Ratings and Reviews
Great, but large
Xcode is a great development tool for mac and I use it a lot but comes at a price. Don't be fooled by the 12.6 GB in the size, you need a lot of storage for this app (the app itself takes 12.6 GB but there is a lot of other stuff). It took me around 40GB. I still think it's worth the storage, though. A lot of people say the application is super buggy, slow and crashes, I've used he app for 7 months and it is slow sometimes but usually not and it has never crashed on me (this is just for me though).
Existing functionality breaks all the time
Whenever a new iOS version is released your app that works absolutely fine on the previous version starts breaking very badly. At a minimum the new iOS version should atleast make sure that things that work fine on the previous version shouldn't break. Focus is always on releasing new features. Apple is not the lone developer using the tools, there is a community which is using these frameworks and tools so new features shouldn't be breaking existing features. Developers are scratching their heads all the time whenever a new iOS version is released and have to rework on the old features for months to fix the bugs.
Thank you Apple!
I appreciate that you made an app like this, so us coders can create our own programs. I have been scrambling the internet to find an application like this! I have used it before, and I can create my own programs on Windows (crossed out) DOS (crossed out) Mac platform! Also since I cannot install Command Line Tools from the web, I'm glad you made a program that comes with it. I was getting sick of these error messages that appear while installing, until now.
App Privacy
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Apple Pty Limited
- Size
- 3 GB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.5 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free