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Mac App Store

Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac.

To download Xcode from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later. Learn More.

Xcode

By Apple

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Description

Xcode provides everything developers need to create great applications for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 has been streamlined to help you write better apps. It has unified user interface design, coding, testing, and debugging all within a single window. The Xcode IDE analyzes the details of your project to identify mistakes in both syntax and logic, it can even help fix your code for you.

Xcode 4.1 runs on OS X Lion and includes the Xcode IDE, Instruments, iOS Simulator, the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs, and hundreds of powerful features:

Innovative tools to help you create great apps
- Interface Builder is fully integrated as a design canvas within the Xcode IDE
- The Assistant shows files related to what you're editing, such as the header, superclass, or controller
- The Version editor shows a live source code comparison through Git or Subversion history
- Live Issues display errors as you type, and Fix-it can correct the mistakes for you
- Apple LLVM compiler now includes full support for C++, in addition to C and Objective-C
- The new LLDB debugging engine is faster and more memory-efficient than GDB
- Instruments adds System Trace and new iOS instruments including OpenGL ES

Streamlined interface that is faster and easier to use
- Design your interface side by side with the backing source code
- Create connections from your GUI design directly to the related source code
- Use tabs to organize your workspace, or double-click to open files in a new window
- Schemes let you customize exactly how your app will build, run, profile, and deploy
- Debugging and console views slide in without disturbing your place in the editor

Professional editor keeps you focused on your code
- Click the Jump Bar at the top of the editor to instantly go to another file
- View message bubbles to see errors, warnings, and other issues right beside the code
- Use the ribbon on the left of the editor to fold your code, or highlight scope

Embedded Apple LLVM technology finds and fixes bugs for you
- Analyzer travels countless code paths looking for logical errors before they become bugs
- Live Issues underlines coding mistakes as you type with no need to build first
- Fix-it can confidently correct mistakes for you with just a keystroke
- Code completion for C, C++, and Objective-C is incredibly fast and accurate

Instruments for visual performance analysis
- Compare CPU, disk, memory, and OpenGL performance as graphical tracks over time
- Identify performance bottlenecks then dive deep into the code to uncover the cause
- Monitor your app directly, or sample the entire system, with very little overhead

To test or deploy applications on an iOS device you must be a member of Apple's iOS Developer Program. To submit your Mac or iOS apps to the App Store you must be a member of the Mac or iOS Developer Program. Some features may require Internet access.

What's New in Version 4.1.1

This is a delta update to Install Xcode.app that fixes the "Installation Alert" to quit iTunes. You do not need to re-run the installer if you already have Xcode 4.1 for Lion successfully installed, as the included tools are unchanged in this update.

--- What's new in Xcode 4.1 for OS X Lion

- Includes SDKs for OS X Lion and iOS 4.3
- Interface Builder support for Auto Layout and new Aqua controls such as NSPopover
- Full screen support in workspace, project, and organizer windows
- Project modernization to identify and resolve out of date build settings
- Behaviors can be customized and assigned to unique key bindings
- Source control enhancements to pushing, pulling, and management of remote servers
- Assistant editor support for display of generated assembly and preprocessed output
- Additional bug fixes and stability improvements

--- Enhancements and fixes in previous Xcode updates:

- Improved Assistant editor logic when switching among different file types
- Fixed a bug in "Install Xcode.app" that hangs at 99% complete, never finishing
- Fixed a bug in the iOS Simulator when running OpenGL ES apps
- Fixed a bug handling some Core Data mapping models
- Fixed a bug related to nil settings in the Core Data model editor
- Fixed a bug that prevented indexing of some projects
- Fixed a bug that prevented automatic download of iOS documentation
- Fixed bugs in LLVM GCC 4.2 and LLVM compiler 2 for iOS projects

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Customer Reviews

Why can't I just have download?

As large as this program is, it would be really nice if Apple would just let me download the thing rather than forcing me to use this ridiculous App store which apparently deletes the downloaded file when it's done, coincidentally not installing. Thanks Apple.

Still hangs

"Fixed a bug in "Install Xcode.app" that hangs at 99% complete, never finishing"

Nope.

terrible update process

I'd like to reiterate how bad of an update process this is for OSX Lion. After downloading and "installing" on the app store page, the Xcode page showed 'installed' even though it was not. I had to use Spotlight to search for "Install Xcode" to actually install it.

Xcode
View in Mac App Store
  • Free
  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Updated: Aug 04, 2011
  • Current Version: 4.1.1
  • Size: 2.96 GB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Apple Inc.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or later

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