Xcode integrates well with the Simulator and documentation viewer and all sorts of other niceties. When I started writing my first iPhone app, I was quite disappointed with XCode. Id personally say that for developing for Apple devices Id just do Xcode, unless youve got some very loved extensions to JetBrain you want to use, in which case Id use both rather than just AppCode. This is because I have been using IntelliJ for the past five years, which I love working with ever since I first started using it. XCode is the IDE you have to use in order to develop iOS and Mac apps. Until recently there weren’t any real alternatives.Ĭompared to IntelliJ, XCode looks very basic to me because it has no handy shortcuts, good refactoring tools or other handy features that I’m used to in IntelliJ. XCode doesn’t look like a software tool that’s developed by Apple at all. It is clear Steve Jobs was not involved creating this tool.Īfter I came to the conclusion I was probably just spoiled by IntelliJ, I accepted the fact that XCode wasn’t as good. Furthermore, I was learning a new language and had to accept that I’m in a different world now. Recently XCode 4 was released, which admittedly has improved a lot compared to XCode 3. But, as I found out, XCode 4 still needs to come a long way to even come close to the usability of IntelliJ. It allows for less painful refactoring and it has auto-completion. AppCode is for iOS/macOS development, and it supports a variety of languages- C++, Objective-C, Swift, and JavaScript, to name a few. This is where AppCode comes in, it is developed by the same people as IntelliJ: JetBrains. Like many other Jetbrains IDE's, AppCode makes the experience of writing code much better. With AppCode they basically built an IDE very similar to IntelliJ, but instead of Java it supports Objective C. Currently it is still in some kind of pre-beta stage they call EAP (Early Access Program), but already it looks very very promising.Īt first I was very sceptical about AppCode, because I didn’t believe in an IDE not part of the standard iOS SDK package. Because the power of how Apple distributes new releases of the SDK is, that the tools are also updated with every release. So you will never run into compatibility issues. A third party IDE would probably have a hard time catching up to the latest iOS version every release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. AppCode even shows me for the unused class or function that really useful for me. Also the auto-completion feature make my job easier. This editor itself is super-customizable, and you can easily customize the font, color and code style. I suspect the guys from JetBrains have also foreseen this problem and came up with a very clever solution. AppCode is a great alternative that made by JetBrains for Mac. It behind the scenes uses the XCode compiler to build your app.AppCode doesn’t have its own project file format, but instead it opens existing XCode projects.They basically built the entire IDE “on top” of XCode.
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