X-code

Xcode is Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. In addition to being packaged on the DVD with every copy of Mac OS X, the latest Xcode developer release is always available for free to ADC members and includes all the tools you need to create, debug, and optimize your applications.

Xcode is both easy to use, and yet powerful enough to build the largest Mac OS X applications. Xcode is designed to let you work with code by means of a intuitive interface. Since everyone does not work the same way, the flexibilty of Xcode provides many different ways to customize the development process. One of the most visible ways you can customize Xcode is to configure your development environment into one of the three following layouts:

• Default, which provides a main window that gives an overview of your project along with separate or attached editor windows and separate build and debug windows.
• Condensed, which provides a smaller simpler project window with an outline view of your project and separate windows for editing, debugging, and building.
• All-in-One, which provides a single project window that lets you perform all of your editing, debugging, searching, and building tasks in a single window.