Datasheet

Getting Started

Xcode 3.2 is shown in Figure 1.3 and was released with OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” Prior to this

release, Apple supplied separate builds of Xcode for iOS and OS X development. With version

3.2, Xcode became a unified development environment that could target both platforms. This

widened the developer base, but also made Xcode more difficult to download. The Mac version

was around 800GB. The combined version is typically around 3GB.

Figure 1.3

The Xcode 3 IDE was productive but limited by obvious UI inefficiencies, such as poor support

for editing multiple files simultaneously.

CAUTION

Strong Java support was a feature of earlier Xcode versions, but that has been downgraded in recent releases. Apple

has moved Xcode toward supporting C-family development, including C, Objective-C, C++, and Objective-C++. These

are now the officially supported languages for iOS and OS X development.

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