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#Latest apple ios for mac simulator

This is for Objective-C but I would think that Apple has put a lot of work into Swift so it should probably work even better there.įor the purpose of learning macOS/iOS coding, I think the 2014 mid-level Mini will work. With the current version on the 2014 Mini, I think it's now a pretty useful tool. At times in the El Capitan version, it did stop my flow of working. I also feel that it's more efficient at doing auto-completion - that is, presenting options for completing the method call you've started to type. Whereas before it seemed to be constantly doing something in the background I feel that it seems to now wait until it senses the coder has stopped/paused typing. It seems to be more intelligent about when it should do background tasks like syntax checking. My impression is that the latest version of Xcode has been noticeably improved since the last El Capitan version. It's certainly not the most complex app out there but it's not trivial either - with hundreds of program files (a bunch from 3rd-party libraries). The iOS app that I have is one that I have on the App Store (free).

#Latest apple ios for mac code

Using my app, I entered code (basically duplicating code from the lines above where I was typing) and moved around the file - trying to replicate a typical coding session. I got a chance to try out the latest version of Xcode on my 2014 2.6Ghz Mini (8GB) running Sierra from an external SSD. With the 2014 Mac, a native 2560x1440 monitor is a better choice (some of the wide monitors with 1440 pixels vertical may be able to work with the 2014 Mini at 60Hz). El Capitan seems to have been better in this respect but as I've noted before, the latest version of Xcode does not run on El Capitan. People have NOT been happy with doing 2560x1440 on 4K monitors. Unless you're developing graphics-intensive apps for macOS or want to do iOS graphics-intensive apps and will work mainly with the simulator, the GPU should not be an issue. I haven't done enough work on comparable Macs (I haven't put Sierra on my Mini's yet) to make any statement on whether this translates into a noticeable performance difference. One thing that I've noticed is that a lot of the Apple apps in Sierra are significantly smaller in size than their El Capitan counterpart.

I can give it a quick go sometime in the next few days and let you know what my impression is. I've only used this Xcode to make sure it was working and could compile/deploy my app to my iPad (not as easy as it sounds because of the certificates and other measures that Apple deploys to make sure you're not doing something they don't want you to do). I have Sierra with the latest version of Xcode on an external USB SSD.

And who knows - maybe a new Mini will be available at that point. But spending that extra money for a MBP if the only justification for that is learning Swift programming may not be a wise decision. At which point, if you become more serious, you can spend more money to get a higher-performance computer.

#Latest apple ios for mac how to

With that in mind, it just may take some time before one will be able to make a decision as to how to proceed with programming - is it going to be something more casual or more serious.

If you've done typical app programming in Linux and are simply moving to Swift for developing on the Mac, the learning curve is reduced, although one still has to become familiar with the graphics framework used on the Mac. If you're new to iOS development, it takes some time to gain some proficiency in programming for the iPhone/iPad. Obviously, a lot of that is how fast your iPhone/iPad is and the limitation of the bandwidth on the lightning cable.

#Latest apple ios for mac simulator

For me, deploying an app to the simulator or on a iPad (I haven't used Xcode to code an iPhone app in a while) isn't too bad but it's slower than running a freshly compiled app on the Mac for the first time. I think Xcode is trying to do all kinds of things in the background and that leads to it's lack of responsiveness. With all of those caveats, I can say that the user interface of Xcode with El Capitan was nowhere as snappy as it was when my 2012 Mini was new (back in December 2012) with Mountain Lion with whatever version of Xcode was current then. The version of Xcode available for El Capitan is not the latest. I used Xcode (Objective-C, not Swift) on my 2012 Mini (16GB) with El Capitan.