Xcode 4+

Name: Xcode
Rating: 2.6 (282 reviews)
Author: Apple

Developer Tools

Apple

- 2.6 • 282 Ratings

- 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.

16 Sept 2024

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

2.6 out of 5

282 Ratings

Review Xcode

I will not give more than 3/5.

My favorite professional tool so far in my life

After almost 10 years in iOS development, I’m still myself the primary bottleneck of my productivity, not the tools. Never felt like looking into alternatives, this one just works as I expect.

(Although I wish they’d drop Interface Builder completely — I *hate* inheriting legacy projects where a developer thought it’s sustainable to develop real-world user interfaces with a powerpoint instead of just doing everything in code — but at least it doesn’t push me too much into using it. Deleting the one initial storyboard from every new project isn’t that difficult. :)

Moronic concept

So... there's this huge package that I need to update every now and then called Xcode that includes an IDE that I never use, just to get some basic libraries to compile software from github etc.

I'm not a professional coder, but when I do code, I tend to use sleeker IDEs and besides I code in python, and I anyway need to install that separately if I want to use the latest version.

Perhaps some developers need to make their programs run in every imaginable Apple platform, but WHY for goddsake didn't you make this modula in the first place, so one could just install Xcode "essentials" without the unnecessary IDE and the iOS stuff etc, that could easily be added from preferences etc?

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.

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Size

3 GB