Apple has released Xcode 16, a major update to its development software that brings support for iOS 18, Swift 6, predictive code completion, Swift Testing, and more.
Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun.
What's New In This Version:
Xcode 16 includes Swift 6 and SDKs for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and macOS Sequoia.
• Predictive code completion boosts your productivity when writing Swift code, using a code intelligence model that keeps your code private and works even when you're offline
• Swift 6 makes it even easier to write safe concurrent code with a new language mode that analyzes your code at compile-time and diagnoses possible data races
• Swift Testing simplifies writing tests with features like parameterization to run the same test over a series of values, and tags to flexibly organize your tests
• Previews can share environments or data across your app and use property wrappers within preview blocks
• Explicit Modules provides better build parallelism, better diagnostics, and faster debugging
• Unified backtrace view shows relevant code from all stack frames in a single view
• Thread Performance Checker surfaces runtime issues and performance problems, including diagnostics to identify excessive disk writes
• RealityKit Debugger captures snapshots of a running visionOS app entity hierarchy to explore it in 3D
You can download Xcode from the App Store for free.
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Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun.
What's New In This Version:
Xcode 16 includes Swift 6 and SDKs for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and macOS Sequoia.
• Predictive code completion boosts your productivity when writing Swift code, using a code intelligence model that keeps your code private and works even when you're offline
• Swift 6 makes it even easier to write safe concurrent code with a new language mode that analyzes your code at compile-time and diagnoses possible data races
• Swift Testing simplifies writing tests with features like parameterization to run the same test over a series of values, and tags to flexibly organize your tests
• Previews can share environments or data across your app and use property wrappers within preview blocks
• Explicit Modules provides better build parallelism, better diagnostics, and faster debugging
• Unified backtrace view shows relevant code from all stack frames in a single view
• Thread Performance Checker surfaces runtime issues and performance problems, including diagnostics to identify excessive disk writes
• RealityKit Debugger captures snapshots of a running visionOS app entity hierarchy to explore it in 3D
You can download Xcode from the App Store for free.
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