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Xcode is Apple’s proprietary integrated development environment (IDE), launched in 2003 to allow developers to make apps for its iPhone, and since then has expanded to develop applications for iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

Xcode, naturally, supports any feature or technology currently available on iOS and iPhone, for which it makes native apps. An extremely powerful tool, it allows for a GUI as well as coding to build your apps. It is the original tool to build apps for launching on Apple products.

Trial is free, no membership to Mac Developer program required
Powerful interface builder and debugging tools
Built-in sprite editor and testing “playground”

XCode Features

Designed for multiplatform
Productive coding
Swift, SwiftUI, Swift Package
Xcode documentation

XCode Info

Platforms:	iOS, macOS
Types:	Game Development Software, Mobile Game Development, Platform
Groups:	App Development Software

Articles from the XCode blog:

Objective-C id as Swift Any Posted on 12th October 2016 (about 6 years ago)
Use iPad to Program Robots with Swift Playgrounds Posted on 21st September 2016 (about 6 years ago)
Working with JSON in Swift Posted on 12th September 2016 (about 6 years ago)
Swift 3 and Xcode 8 Posted on 20th June 2016 (about 6 years ago)
Interactive Playgrounds Posted on 08th February 2016 (about 7 years ago)

XCode Rankings

Top App Development Software (2022) Posted by Pia Subramaniam ...being the main two coding languages for iOS applications, there are a wide variety of tutorials for the xCode IDE, editors, libraries, plugins and other resources that are vast and of excellent quality.

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