For years, the only language for developing UI applications for OSX and iOS was Objective-C and the only IDE was Apple’s Xcode. Apple announced Swift at WWDC a year ago and Swift 2.0 at this year’s WWDC. Swift has a much easier syntax to learn than Objective-C, and is more secure and less prone to latent bugs like stack overflow errors. There are at least three ways to develop GUI applications for iOS and OSX. You can use a traditional text editor (like vim or emacs) to edit your source and use the command line compilers to compile and build your application. If you’ve ever set up a continuous integration system, you’re familiar with the command line tools.Īpple’s Xcode is a full featured IDE for developing C, C++, Objective-C, and Swift applications. The editor has its own idiosyncrasies, like hitting the tab key with a range of lines selected replaces the lines with a tab character instead of the expected behavior of indenting the lines. The interface for setting the various options for building and linking your program can be overwhelming. JetBrains’ AppCode brings all of their excellent IDE functionality to building Objective-C and Swift applications. You get the added bonus of JetBrains’ HTML, JavaScript, and CSS editors. You still need to use Xcode for things like adding images to xcassets, and working with Storyboards. For the most part you can do your work in AppCode. This editor allows you to design the user interface for your app with a drag and drop WYSIWYG view and form based entry to configure the properties of the user interface elements. There are point and click features for connecting events to methods in your classes, though you will be switching between source code for your classes and the WYSIWYG editor to do so. There’s no requirement that you use Storyboards at all. We also want to thank everyone who has evaluated our Early Access Program builds! Your feedback, votes and submissions to the issue tracker were instrumental in getting this release out the door.The alternative is to instantiate the UI element classes and to configure the elements’ properties in code. All Emmet features are also supported in AppCode. Note that AppCode 3.0 is a free update for everyone who purchased their AppCode license after May 20, 2013. AppCode fully supports JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS and Markdown, including all code editing and transformation features like syntax highlighting, analysis, completion, navigation and refactoring. Read more details about what’s new and download AppCode 3.0 free trial for 30 days to evaluate all the new features. The full list of fixed issues can be found in our tracker. For example, ‘Search everywhere’ will really search in every nook and cranny (Files, Actions, Preferences, etc.).
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