Xcode Reviews & Product Details

Very simple to use, once we get used to it, there is no other alternative. The build tools and emulators provide developers a very platform to develop quality apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apple making this is very restrictive and also access control to very small bits it a bit annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used this program for c++ and it was phenomenal, seem less and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue i have with xcode is that it’s specific to mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface builder makes it easy to design my interface without using code! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It only works on Macs so I’m unable to share with some colleagues or friends that use PC! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love the interface, and it's amazing to see what you can create using this tool. Allows easy reading and writing of code, and publishing couldn't be more of a breeze. The editor itself is very intuitive to use, and performance of the application is fast--compiling and testing code is easy enough provided you have a machine that is relatively well-equipped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since Xcode can only be used with the Mac OS, one inherent limitation is that you can only use it with a native Mac machine or a partitioned virtual machine running Mac OS. It would also be ideal to have something that allows a publish without a license that costs money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you are familiar with Xcode, it is very easy to use and extremely powerful The thing I like most is inclusion of a lot of other tools for debugging really hard issues like Leaks, Analyzer, Allocations and File Activity.

The user interface is pretty nifty and slick, and hotkeys are life saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I absolutely detest the provisioning profile management from Xcode. Its cryptic, not good enough documentation, and its like a black box which when works, is magical. But when it doesnt, its a nightmare to deal with. I wish Xcode makes it more transparent and gives more control to the power users related to codesigning, developer account and provisioning profiles.

Another thing I hate is Apple's annual releases of Xcode with breaking changes. This makes it a nightmare to keep our product working fine on latest OS with new Xcode. More often than not, we have to make alot of changes to our product to ensure that its compatible with latest releases of OS and Xcode. I would urge Apple to think hard about backward compatibility to make consumer's lives little easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simulator for iPhones and iPads is very fast and true to a real device. Deployment of apps to App Store is very quick from Xcode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would like more official documentation for react native support using Xcode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration into the Apple ecosystem. Given it is developed by Apple, this shouldn't be a surprise. It is capable and has everything you need to develop software for the Apple ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are going to need a bigger text box for this one. It is clunky. For me, I spend more time figuring out how to do something opposed to just doing it. It has potential but seems to fall short. I try to draw a flow from one screen to another and follow the directions and nothing happens. Google it, still nothing. Manually add the code and then it lets me draw the connection. Well that was helpful given its a GUI. I would almost rather visit the dentist then have to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For creating UI's for iOS apps, it's very good at what it does. Easy to switch between scenes and takes a lot of coding out of connecting scenes to each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's pretty terrible compared to its competition when it comes to coding things that aren't Swift/Objective C. Which I mean Swift/Objective C is what XCode is made for, I get it, but my Mac tries to use XCode for everything and Apple just needs to accept that XCode isn't that good for everything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the only IDE with which you can easily create applications for iOS and Mac OS. It supports Apple's new language, Swift. You can create applications visually, with hardly any need to write code. Additionally, it integrates with plugins and with Git. It has emulators to test the application on different devices without the need to buy them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can only be used on a Mac computer, meaning it cannot be installed on Windows or Linux... to be able to develop, we need to have an Apple computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity, the way it's preventing errors and mistakes. Coding in Swift is very satisfying thanks to Xcode. You can use the Storyboards to build the front end interface. In this case everything is almost interface only, with drag and drop objects, and visual settings. I like this because it can really give the opportunity to beginners to develop apps so much easily than 100% programmatically. As an ex graphic designer this is very convenient and I am used to such an environment including UI design patterns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not the program itself but sometimes there are too many Objective C in Swift. Sometimes the errors are appearing way too fast. I don't even have the time to finish the lines of code I was writing that Xcode is already complaining and showing red errors. It can be a bit disturbing at first, but we are used to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.