Xcode App Reviews

This IDE has a basic level of bugginess we’ve all come to accept, but Xcode 8 is one of the buggiest releases I’ve seen. I often lose “undo” history, it crashes randomly especially while using Interface Builder, and many of my storyboards and constraints got messed up after upgrading, so I have to keep Xcode 7 around to edit them. “Open Quickly,” a feature I use frequently, remains hopelessly unintelligent about the actual file I want to open, and continues recommending and changing results it gives between the time I finish typing what I want and am on my way to hitting Return. As always, there’s no keyboard customization to make things work like other IDEs I use, so I have to give up all my muscle memory to adhere to Xcode’s insular way of doing things. It’s still impossible to get tabs working the way I want, so a lot of my time is spent trying to get back to files, or certain places within them. Customization is a basic function of any good IDE or *text editor*, yet Xcode still can’t even get that right. The new sizeclass navigation in IB only makes things more confusing, and makes me less confident in my software. Developing apps with Xcode is the FARTHEST from “easier and more fun,” as Xcode ensures I spend most of my time wrestling with it instead of the software I’m building. AppCode eases the pain a bit, but we’ll still always need this subpar IDE to develop for iOS. So avoid it if you can, and keep accepting the shaft if you can’t.

XCode redefines substandard. For a company as cocky as Apple, it seems like XCode would continually get better. But it’s the opposite. upgrading to XC8 caused me to spend most of a day fixing bugs. My storyboards were smoked. Code completion, for all intents and purposes, is nonexistent since it takes now takes several seconds to open. Simulator problems, crash problems, terrible debugging tools for Swift, and the code signing, which was supposed to make things easier seems to be even more cryptic than ever. Please get it together Apple. You’re making my life miserable

This is anything but a well written product. I must reboot my machine from one to three times a day as the beachball spins incessantly. Sometimes it recovers after ten minutes, sometimes not. With each release I await more broken pieces and it just shouldn’t be so. Language-wise what do you mean I have to add a @Synthesize? Really?!?!?! You know what’s required and it’s just a waste of a developers time. Dragging on the IB screen from a controls left side causes the entire container to move, the solution for which is to drag from the right side and then move the control back into place. Embedding a container view in a view controller causes the container view to wind up somewhere north on the IB screen. Really?!?!?! Didn’t anyone try loading each control before releasing the product? Seriously, you all need to test and test and start getting your reputation back as this is a fiasco. Update Nov 24, 2016 — Microsoft will bring their Developer Studio to OS X. Hopefully native apps will be able to be written, or the Xmarian tools will be improved. And hopefully Apple won’t make it too difficult for Microsoft/Xamarian to play in their space. What a piece of crap, this Xcode.

Using Xcode has always been a matter of working around its qirks and issues, but this is the first version that is completly unusable. 1. Constant SourceKit crashes in Swift. 2. Crap shoot using Actions & Outlets 3. Indexing usually doesnt work. Using additional tools like AppCode is more of necessity but because of the dependncy of SourceKit, that only makes it a little better. This is just as bad as the orginal Swift betas, but Swift is 3 years old and this is not a beta.

I had to upgrade my Xcode once i upgraded my OS and it has just been trouble. All my storyboard scenes were misaligned for starters which took me many hours to correct. Beyond that the IDE crashes all the time now. My current issue is that it crashes each time I open my project which is obviously a huge issue. There have been other bugs were deleting a row from a storyboard tableVC causes a crash. In my opionon, this IDE has only gotten worse since the older versions. It it’s all that much faster but is very unstable. As a developer who values his time and sanity, having an IDE that is unreliable is just about the worst part of developing for the iOS platform. Fix the bugs and stop disappointing developers.

Here to reinstall after all my simulators mysteriously disappeared today and wont download again (timeouts, eventually). Version 8 has been pretty bad. Back around version 5-6, this was a good editor. Now quality control has gone way downhill and there are bugs that shouldnt be tolerated in production software. I pretty regularly have to "show package" on my workspace files and go in and delete my local settings folder to get Xcode to open my project. Now the simulators thing. Plus the "pick a storyboard size on opening storyboard in Xcode 8, but Ill leave all your UI components with the wrong dimensions and force you to update anyway" bug/issue/behavior. Full time iOS developer. Growing to hate apple software generally. This is my lifeblood, and its getting worse and worse over time.

I’m a CS student who has to use Xcode for one of my classes. I will say, without a doubt, this is the worst IDE that I have ever used. 1) Its riddled with annoying bugs and inconsistencies. 2) The error highlighting gives very little explanation or feedback. 3a) When I add elements to the interface, it hides the corresponding code where I can’t seem to find it. (This coupled with number 2 makes debugging a nightmare.) 3b) The way the interface building works is redundant. (There are cases where I have to add an element to the storyboard, connect that element to something else, change the properties of the elements in the utilities section, and then add code to the ViewController. Why? After I add the elements and make the connections, why can’t it just ask for the properties that are needed and generate the code from that?) 4) There is no refactoring for Swift, even though it’s been two and a half years since it was introduced. (Not even renaming! How is that even possible? XCode knows that my code breaks when I change a variable name in one place, but leave it the same in another. But, somehow it can’t use that same kind of tracking to allow simple name refactoring?) 5) Every time I update, my previous work gets broken. (To be fair, this one is probably due more to Swift than to XCode. I could write a very long rant about the problems with Swift in and of itself.) Xcode ties my hands when I need to take control, but at the same time, the things it should be able to do on its own are either buggy or flat-out nonexistent. It is the worst of both extremes. I spend more time helping Xcode than Xcode spends helping me.

All the 1-star reviews have got to be angry people. If you’re new to coding, learn Xcode—it is a great tool. -Auto-correcting and auto-filling out methods This makes it easier to try out new code you don’t know anything about, because the code completes and asks you what values you want to fill in. -Fairly accurate de-bugging Most bugs you’ll learn after about 6 months of going onto Stack Overflow. I’m at the point now where I get an error message and now precisely where it’s coming from. At first, a single little bug will take you days to figure out (seriously). But the more you try, the more you look into in (on Stack Overflow), the more you’ll begin to be able to quickly move through bugs. Expect 6 months of working through bugs until it doesn’t take 1 or 2 days to figure it out. -All the app files are in one place Your image files (icons, mainly) are in folders along with you code files, so you can move easily through designing your app. -Works well with GitHub and Cocoapods. Learn these. GitHub is where you will store you code in the Cloud. Cocoapods is where you’ll get code Libraries (pre-written code), so you don’t have to write you own code to do standard tasks (like, keyboard helper). All in all, I think Xcode is one of the greatest gifts to modern programmers. I started about a year ago. I’ve used Xcode every day. In the past, trying to write code in command-line interfaces, or in text documents, was painful. With Xcode’s “Storyboarding,” which is the familiar click and drag style (like Paint for Microsoft), *seeing* your project is much easier. Xcode *is* beginner-friendly, contrary to the 1-star reviews. I write the review simply to explain to beginners: if you’re starting to write code, use Xcode.

Utility pane no longer displays for image sets… sad and pathetic, really.

Worst piece of garbage software I have ever seen. Mac makes it your default for opening so many files too so good luck setting everything back to sublime. Also causes perfectly valid c code to give tons of warnings. “warning: section ”__const_coal“ is deprecated” error after updating Xcode to latest version on Mac OS pops up all the time. Just look at all the one star reviews. So many bugs and it even causes bugs in other programs just from having it on your computer.

I can’t even download this app. What up Apple you can’t even get your own programs right. Microsoft wanna be’s. Oh well it saved me a terabyte of space

Autocomplete stopped working for me AGAIN today. You ever try coding without it? So I am no into my 2nd wasted hour of develppment time, deleting Derived Data, restarting the computer, deleting XCode, reinstalling…NOT HAPPY. This has happened before. Why does it always build the asset catalog? It takes a LONG time to build the asset catalog. I have not touched it! Also seems to recompile and do a lot of work each time that is unnecesary (Should be cached). Time is MONEY!

I usually shrug off all the negative reviews between major Xcode versions, but this version of Xcode lives up to every 1-star review out there. Everything about it feel half-baked. Storyboards come with a multitude of migration bugs, and nonsensical errors or crashes are common. So far, Xcode 8 is proving to be a horrible, horrible experience. If you are considering upgrading to it, don’t.

Don’t know why but there are some troubles in the simulators. The buttons don’t respond, simulator contents not fitting the whole window when resized.

Just in one word… its Awesome

My computer is a 2013 macbook air, and i have had no problems with Ram and CPU. I have four gigabytes of ram When I try to use this, my computer simply cannot handle it. Be warned, this is not for all computers.

The ide for this version of Xcode is great, however it is not as good as some, as collaborations is quite hard,/impossible, but nevertheless the ui is great; I would rate it a 4.5/5

was trying to get familiarize myself with the new Swift 3.0 syntax but Xcode won’t complete anything. ugh!

For some strange reason iTunes connect no longer recognizes apps built in Xcode 8.2. What was Apple thinking do they not test the product before releasing?

i uninstalled the app and deleted it from my computer, but it still keeps popping up wanting to be updated. it’s a large data file. it eats up limited data. please make it stop. it’s so annoying. that little red app update notification. a forced update otherwise. pretty much raping data just because. what is the deal here? intentional irritation? or a broken computation? this deserves negative stars.