Xcode Reviews & Product Details

The integrated tools have gotten better over the years, I love seeing the investment that Apple is putting into the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Storyboards (at least in their current implementation). A monolithic XML file describing the entire Application UI is a terrible idea, even allowing the storyboard to be split into separate storyboards doesn't go far enough. I believe that the storyboard should be a special directory filled with .xib files with some JSON to tie them together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that it completes my code for me. It is easy to use given all the functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The debugger is not really useful. Watch variables aren't doing what I want them to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a comprehensive development suite for every Apple platform. It comes with a code editor with multi-pane support, interface builder, build config management, simulators, and a host of debug tools.

What makes it even better is the great plugin support. It allows you to work around most of Xcode's shortcomings, and custom tailor any improvements to your workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Autocomplete functionality for Swift in general, but especially modules is pretty bad right now. Error messages and warning for Swift could likewise be improved. There's also still no refactoring support for Swift.

I've given up hope that provisioning profiles will ever be fixed/improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very complete integrated solution for Apple environment.

In a dev overview the auto-complete feature helps a lot when you are newbie, but sometimes is painful slow.

I really like the debugger with integration with Instruments, it helps a lot to when you need to mitigate networks/battery issues, the UI is very clear. I also like the Organizer section that keep your builds stored and organized, in spite of I think that it needs a better UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me the XCODE is very overweight, ok.. it is a complete solution, but for daily code its so much;

The UX/UI for beginners is very complicated, I think that the learn curve need to be improved;

Also I still have some crashs when I am coding big projects that requires a lot of dependence.

I think that the speed of build need to be improved also. Sometimes I need to wait 5 minutes to archive an IPA.

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the way i can refresh the application with just cmd+R or launch the debugger is lovely.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i find the getting around menu a bit tougher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Apple provides the Xcode tool at no expense to developers and easy delivery via the Mac App Store. Code completion, excellent documentation, pretty decent visual tools, support for plug-ins, etc... also make for a very nice IDE.

Unit Testing has come a long way in Xcode in the past few versions, this is very welcomed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The source code integrations is often broken from build-to-build and is not very reliable. If you're committing your code thru Xcode, you're playing with fire.

Ever version from 6.1 to 6.2 to 6.3 to 6.4 to 7.0 to 7.1, Apple inevitably breaks a critical feature (like Source Control, or Tests) and you have to downgrade or wait for the feature to be fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great IDE, easy to use to manage frameworks, assets, and edit code. Autocomplete on code has been greatly improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasional bugs and crashes

Some frustrated build errors because of linker errors and framework issues, with very little documentation or explanation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Xcode is great for programming for the iOS platform. In fact, it is one of the only IDEs available to use for Objective-C development for iOS. When submitted apps to the app store, it must be through Xcode.

My favorite feature of Xcode is the code completion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does have its quirks. There are bugs that sometimes do not get fixed readily. Every once in a while, the software will crash. In most cases, these crashes will not cause any loss of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When working with Xcode, there is no doubt in your mind that it is built with integration in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Inconsistencies. Between Swift not always auto completing properly, swift definitely sucking while debugging, and other random bizarre crashes, Xcode can be infuriating at times when it just doesn't feel like it's cooperating with you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Allow to build project when you need it will avoid draining resources (CPU, Ram, Disk).

- Allow you to create Objective-C code.

- Nice Devices emulator built-in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The worst part is probably the debugger. All modern debugger allow to see you data easily. In this case, some values will have to be printed out in the console! Sometimes, you will have a full interactive view for values, such as images... It would be more profitable to be able to see All values without work around. Watching values is particularly messy...

- Autocompletion is not completing some values

- Most issues are related to the bad architecture of Objective-C, but still, those mess are generally hidden by the IDE (isn't it one of the main role of an IDE?). In Objective-C, folders don't really exists. It's a file that generate extremely complex collision issues when merging code from multiple sources. When adding a file, it's not really added... You need to add the added file manually! In a breeze, the IDE will help you with some things, but some basic handling will fall into your hands (waste of time!).

- I don't find the UI intuitive. Most feature are hidden or you need to Google basic feature and use complex 3-ways shortcuts to do basic commands... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.