Xcode App Reviews

Sharing the frustration of many developers here as I sit and watch the endless spinning wheel of despair.

i had to follow these steps: 1. delete xcode, ie rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app 2. install it via app store - it will ask about command line tools which you will have to install first. xcode install takes a long time (1 hr for me on a wired connection). 3. put it in the right place mv ~/Xcode.app /Applications 4. sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

Use a course on Udemy to teach you the basics. It helped me out. Typed my first line of code two months ago and I a near completion of my first iOS app. I know it seems difficult, but compared to other programming programs, this is the most user-friendly

After adding frameworks, Xcode will no longer recongize the new frameworks.

There have been good changes but it is not fun to update the OS/Xcode every time there’s a new iOS version because it causes issues and takes a long time for developers. However, this new update is pretty cool and I haven’t had any problems.

Does this app really need to be nearly 5GB? It’s just eats up too much space to be useful.

xcode used to be cool. but after version 7 its just awful. constantly frezes and crashes yet i have a very high end mac. Really hope apple fixes this.

So far so good. First, I had to *upgrade to OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan)* as it’s a requirement for this version (7.3) of Xcode. I was a bit hesitant as I didn’t want to update my Mac OS X just yet. But so far all is going well. Intellisense has improved - finally the options shown are not just indexed by the first letter of what you’re trying to remember.

7.3 not allowing user to export for ad-hoc distribution using bit code. Dont download 7.3 if you are doing ad-hoc distribution. Wested 3 hours to figure it out and then downloaded 7.2.1 its working fine i.e. able to export for ad-hoc distribution

It’s Bugy -wrong auto completion & not working in many cases -Crashes many times -It’s slow ?? I am have I mac 5k with 8 RAM -XCode doesn’t aware about misstacke when correct it untile rebuild the project -Refactor objects does’t working successfully -Does’nt see the headers Please make a stable relaesse before force developer to make update !!

Very good IDE. I (unfortunately) tried to help out on the v7.3 beta eval. Now I am upgrading to the v7.3 release. Phew! What a pain! Apple, any chance you could add an “Update” feature in the Help menu?

It is a constant wrestling match with the environment from editor to debugger. Bugged-up Bloatware. And because it is free, Apple has crushed the market for solid competition of any decent caliber. - text wraps in the editor making it confusing to read yet necessary because of Apple’s unformatted header documentation … And ironically text does not wrap in debug variables section so you can’t see all of the text in Apple’s built-in exception strings without a 30” monitor. - debug variables nearly useless as they show little or nothing of cocoa object internals much of the time. View memory function frequently does not and requires hand jamming like variable display. Cant even open a variable in a separate window for debug change analysis work. - built for a microsoft 1-window-world, acts like a browwer rather than a document editor so you forever fight to maintain context with multiple “document” window locations in your workspace. In fact, due to random changes of Window contents based upon opening Finder documents, the concept of “workspace” is more slipery than teflon against teflon. In the bright side, no need to buy large Apple monitors just to get a bigger 1-window-xworld. - Auto-formatting (Auto-ugly) that cannot be reasonably modified and ironically flys in the face of the original (and extrememly well concieved) Apple C++ Style Guide. Sure, it has some really great editor features like the ablity to augment the failings of Xcode with plug-ins… But at the end of the day, the original IDEs like CodeWarror and MPW still provided critical functionality that Xcode doesn’t come near. So just don’t use it right? Read the first sentence of this review... Xcode is only free if your time is worth nothing.

The update will not download for anyone, please fix!

If you develop on your iPhone DO NOT UPDATE to iOS 9.3! X-code 7.3 is required to develop on the new OS and it will NOT DOWNLOAD. When I click “Update" the spinner starts in the top left but nothing happens. I’ve been having this problem for over a day now. Very disruptive for work, Apple needs to fix this ASAP. ********** UPDATE I had previously given 1 star because it would not download. After researching I found that I needed to upgrate from Yosemite to El Capitan. Then I moved Xcode to the trash (and emptied the trash). Then in the app store I could then “install” rather than “update”. This seems to have worked for me, although it was scary have to upgrade OS and trash Xcode with no guaruntee it would download again. The documentation of requirements could be much better. Good luck everyone.

Just a thought: I too thought I was having problems downloading 7.3, but then when I clicked on my ‘old’ Xcode (the pre 7.3Beta) icon, it brought up 7.3. I love swift, and I think that Xcode is pretty neat. The one problem I had was in application layout. I had to use my mouse as the touch pad had too much slop.

This is the worst customer experience. I cannot update my version of Xcode. This is putting my projects on hold and causing me huge frustration. Apple Quality is not upto standard.

i am not able to fully download version 7.3, i do not know what the problem is, but once it stops downloading and installing it says download failed

Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL etc … A convenient built in means of compiling on a remote machine while being able to edit locally and run remotely but view locally using xcode. For example, be able to use a low power Macbook 12 for local editing and compile and run all the code on a more powerful remote Mac Pro, while being able to see the app running locally on the Macbook 12. Compiling on a Macbook or Macbook Air is NOT a good experience, though their portability is great. Also helps in maintaining servers.

If you are still not able to update/install the new Xcode, one temporary solution would be download from developer account (it’s pretty easy to create one if you don’t have).

Wow.. Apple has done a great job of alienating people with it’s draconic rules regarding the ability actually download Xcode.. seriously. Why should it be this hard?