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I'm guessing they have a subscription cloud-based IDE coming for more complicated apps, their new Xcode Cloud service offers building and testing it just needs editing your files in the cloud too.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

Instructions for those who really want to install it now (warning, this will take up ~7 gigabytes of space on your computer for the developer tools):
1. Sign up for the Apple Developer Program.
2. Download Xcode 7 from here.
3. Install it (and the Developer Tools).
4. Go to the Github repo here and click Download ZIP.
5. Open the zip file and open the OpenAdblock folder, then open OpenAdblock.xcodeproj. This will open it in Xcode.
6. Go to Xcode > Preferences. Open the Accounts tab and add your Apple ID (the one you used to sign to be a developer). Close Preferences.
7. On the right side there will be a sidebar with one file called OpenAdblock. Select it.
8. This will cause a bunch of stuff like Identity, Version, etc. to appear in the center. Select the Team: Unknown Name [Some garbage here] and change it to your account.
9. Right above team there is a field that asks for a bundle identifier. Change it to something that someone else is unlikely to choose (for example, "[orignalname].[yourname]") 10. Plug in your iPhone, and click the iPhone 6 next to the stop button on the top and select your iOS device (not the model, the name of your device).
11. Click the play button, unlock your iPhone, and enjoy :)
If you have any questions, just reply.
[EDIT]: Gold? Thanks! Although I'm surprised you that you were able to download Xcode that quickly.

> Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers. It accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps by bringing together cloud-based tools that help you build apps, run automated tests in parallel, deliver apps to testers, and view and manage user feedback.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

On the Xcode page it says:

> Xcode 7 and Swift now make it easier for everyone to build apps and run them directly on their Apple devices. Simply sign in with your Apple ID, and turn your idea into an app that you can touch on your iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch. Download Xcode 7 beta and try it yourself today. Program membership is not required.

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So I'm guessing it's not.

Python is already installed with macOS, although you might want to download a newer version. For C utilities (gcc/clang, ld, make, headers), they'd be included with XCode. For your IDE, XCode 'works', but most people (macOS or not) seem to gravitate towards VSCode these days (unless you're doing macOS/iOS-specific dev, but I'll assume not given C and Python).

As of Xcode 7 (which is currently in beta), anyone is allowed to sideload apps without joining the Apple Developer Program.

Take a look at the "Now everyone can get their app on their Apple device" section on the Xcode 7 website for more information.

Xcode, Apple’s actual IDE or Integrated Developer Environment, is completely free if you have a Mac. It also has free playgrounds to get you started making different kinds of apps. And to add ads all you have to do is use an ad companies API or Application Programming Interface.

I believe there are guides out there for how to emulate macOS if you don’t have a Mac, but the legality of emulating macOS on non-Mac hardware is questionable depending on where you live.

Good luck!

Looks like you're on Swift 1.2, rather than Swift 2. You can get the beta here. Swift 1.2 changed Strings to Ints with .toInt(), I think, like this:

"1".toInt() // 1?

Swift 2 changed some of those conversion methods to functions, but they work the same other than that. This works fine for me (I'm on Swift 2) at any rate:

var possibleNumber = "1" var convertedNumber = Int(possibleNumber)

I can't imagine there will be much difference. The next os will inevitably have apps for it built in xcode which is what you use to develop.

If anything there will just be new features and additions to what you can tell the phone to do, but since you probably won't use these you won't even notice.

While there might be some changes (I stopped developing for around a year and had to get used to a couple of new things myself) the "methods" probably won't stop changing for the foreseeable future.

Keep in mind that unless you are specifically building for a feature in iOS 8 then there is no reason it won't be backwards compatible with iOS 7 etc. Also, iOS might not be the market majority for another few months, which gives you a chance to start learning and developing!

Though I up-voted this comment, you don't know what you're talking about. MacOS is based on Unix, which is what Linux is derived from, which is what most of the world's heavy duty computers run as an OS. Most of the major computing is done by nodes which have nothing more than a simple kernal. No windows, no user interface of any kind, just something to communicate with other nodes and to allow the processing of data.

Mac has software development tools equivalent to the PC's software development tools. How do you think people write software for the Mac? https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ide/

FYI, I'm a software developer by trade, specializing in C++ and C#. I despise Apple because of their incessant need to control everything you do with your computer. That said, I loved my Apple ][gs when I was in school.

Hardware-wise, they have the best build quality you can buy (everyone's trying to imitate them). Software-wise, they are the most flexible—they can run macOS, Windows, & Linux all natively or in a VM. You can also play around with Swift & Xcode which you'll definitely need if you want to do iOS development.

But I'd wait until next month if you can. New models are around the corner.

Disclaimer: Former CS/Philosophy interdepartmental major.

> you can't download the Xcode 7 betas outside of the Apple Developer Program

Actually, it is free to the general public, and has been since the day of the keynote. (I know, it surprised me too.)

That being said, Xcode 7 is a buggy pile of shit. I don't get why of all things, Apple's IDE is the only thing that is prone to crashing every few minutes. I vividly remember the same thing happened with 6 last year, too.

Xcode 6 Beta 3 brought a number of breaking changes to Swift[0]:

Array in Swift has been completely redesigned to have full value semantics like Dictionary and String have always had in Swift. ... This is a major change for Array, and there are still some performance issues to be addressed.
The Array and Dictionary "sugar" syntax has been redesigned: You now declare arrays as [Int]insteadofasInt[], as shorthandfor Array<Int>. Along with this, Dictionary syntax has improved so that [Key:Value] is treated as sugar for Dictionary<Key,Value>.
The half-closed range operator has been changed from .. to ..< to reduce confusion and ambiguity. Now the two range operators are ..< and ... for half-closed and closed ranges, respectively.
nil is now a literal in the language, not a global constant of _Nil type. This change resolved a number of problems with nil; e.g. nil in a collection, nil converting to Any, etc. Types can now indicate that they are nil compatible by conforming to NilLiteralConvertible

There are many more changes that involve redesigns in both Swift's standard library as well as its Cocoa interoperability which I left out.

Swift is not feature complete and developers should expect breaking changes with each subsequent Xcode developer preview, as with any Apple prerelease API.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/releasenotes/prerelease/ios/index.html [PDF/ Requires ADC Login]

He's using XCode. It's an Integrated Development Environment (or IDE) for writing programs. C++ is a compiled language, which means that you write the program in a series of text files in an IDE or text editor and then run a compiler which creates an executable, such as a .exe file in Windows land.

You should be able to find it here:

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/resources/

See:

>Additional Downloads

>Get the latest beta and older versions of Xcode. To view downloads, simply sign in with your Apple ID. Apple Developer Program membership is not required.

>Beta Versions of Xcode >Command Line Tools & Older Versions of Xcode

I suggest you put those powers to use than, especially considering you want to be a developer.

First result in pretty much every search engine is the official Apple link for Xcode, login and start download on any platform. (download at the top right)

Just adding to this, depending on what is in those AVI files OP may be able to get away with rewrapping the video and only transcoding the audio.

Most cameras that shoot to AVI are either using Motion JPEG (which you can stuff into a MOV file easy enough) or MPEG-4 ASP (AKA: DivX and XviD) which MP4s are fully compatible with.

Otherwise I'd say you've got this nailed if OP wants ProRes to deal with. The only thing I'd add is that -profile:v will select the flavor of ProRes, with 0 getting you Proxy, 1 LT, 2 bog standard 422, and 3 HQ. LT probably would be ~~fine here~~ overkill, and could save OP some overhead. Also pcm_s24le is probably overkill since it likely uses 16-bit audio (if the dashcam even records sound) but whatever. Compared to the video stream 24-bit versus 16-bit audio consumes negligible amounts of space.

Also the easy way to get ffmpeg installed is to use the package manager Homebrew. Download, install and run Xcode (older versions for older OSes can easily be found in the Apple Developer Connection for free) and then use the instructions from Homebrew to install the package manager. After that it's easy peasy:

brew install ffmpeg

Boom. Done. I've worked with a lot of package managers and Homebrew is the best one I've found for OS X.

for...in loops only work over SequenceTypes. So that would be things like arrays:

for x in [1, 2, 3, 4] {...

Or sets, or whatever.

The count property of numbers is just an integer, not a SequenceType. What you're looking for is a Range of Int. You construct a Range using ... or ..<. So this:

for x in 1...5 {...

Is the range of 1 to 5. Or, in your example, what you want is:

for x in 0..<count(numbers) {...

The difference between ... and ..< is that the first includes the last number in the range, while the second doesn't:

1...3 // 1, 2, 3 1..<3 // 1, 2

Since indexing starts from zero, 0..<count(numbers) will give you the indices of numbers.

One caveat here: the above is Swift 1.2, which you should really be moving away from. Swift 2.0 is pretty much out of beta by now, and a lot of the things you might learn in Swift 1.2 won't work in Swift 2.0. You can get the Xcode 7 GM Seed (the Xcode with Swift 2.0) here.

Just as an example of some of the things that have changed, count isn't a global function anymore, it's a property on CollectionTypes. So you get at it like this:

numbers.count

rather than this:

count(numbers)

Also, there's a new property on CollectionTypes: indices, that actually does all of the range-making for you automagically:

for x in numbers.indices {...

HTH

You're in luck, the Xcode 7 beta is the first to allow this, and I believe is also the first beta to not require a membership (not sure though).

Download Xcode 7 and you should be able to run without a membership.

Edit: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/

Download Xcode 7 beta 3
(a Free Developer Account is required for download)

Then run this in the terminal to remove Xcode 7 beta 3 from "quarantine"

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Xcode-beta.app

You could try that code with your current Xcode if you don't want to install Xcode beta.

Hope this helps, cheers.

Maybe I was wrong anyway, on Apple's page here. They say:

> Simply sign in with your Apple ID, and turn your idea into an app that you can touch on your iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch.

So they don't call it an Apple Developer Program account, they simply call it an Apple ID. Which is a subtle but important difference.

After re-reading that page, now I am starting to think that the $99/year will be required.

Not sure if you're serious (you did post in /r/shittyprogramming which is probably the worst place for serious programming advice) but I'll pretend you are.

If you want to have full control over your app, you shouldn't use "codeless" app builders. I recommend using proper IDEs and taking some time to learn them. It should be easy enough, there are tons of free tutorials available all over the Internet.

For Android, you should use Android Studio as it's the official and best-supported one. It's based off IntelliJ IDEA so if you have some Java experience, you should be able to jump right in.

I can't really speak about iOS as I've never used it before, but it appears that Xcode is the recommended IDE of choice.

TL;DR: Use proper IDE, not codeless app builder.

hey chris awesome show. when you were talking about xcode borrowing stuff from gnome shell was it about only for client side decorations or also for popovers? I have no idea if xcode 5 had popovers or generally osx used popover for any of its menus, but apparently xcode 6 also borrowed another thing from gnome shell.

Xcode 6 with popover: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/images/whats-new-2014.png

Gedit 3.12 with popover: http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/files/2014/03/gedit-popover1.png

If anyone knows if osx or xcode used popovers for menus before then correct me.

Compared to OS X Windows is horrible. Granted, I'm not a gamer (modern games anyway). And I have no idea what your developer comment is meant to mean, unless you're confusing iOS and OS X. iOS did go the walled garden route, but OS X is still open as ever, and the development kit (Xcode) is a totally free download and you can distribute as you see fit.

There is a $99 developers fee but that only applies if you intend to distribute on the Apple AppStore. You can still distribute on your own as you like for $0.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

You'll need a c++ compiler, like g++ or MSVC++. Apparently the Mac c++ compiler is bundled with XCode. If you don't know what that is, it's probably not worth trying, so here's a silly Pinkie instead.

[](/rppcute-in)

They're pushing XCode to the cloud instead.

I'd also say moving the iPad Pro to the M1 is the next logical step toward seeing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on the iPad. They won't just do a straight port, though - they'll rework the interface so it actually takes advantage of the touch interface on the iPad. This takes a significant amount of effort, especially since they won't want to break how it works on the Mac in the process.

When I started web development, the lack of such of such low-code tools really surprised me. It feels natural to drag and drop components and place them visually instead of trying to find the right aesthetics by manipulating code.

I have not done any iOS development but something like SwiftUI seems to be right kind of tool for developing GUI to me. However, it would only be possible with a component based framework instead of CSS which is too low level for this kind of work.

I know. Just gave you the most honest answer I could. The best I can think of is Apple’s software development tools have emulators for iPad and iPhone but they are not complete copies of the iPad or Phone. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Help there,

The new 2018 MacBook Air can support one 5k external display.

As far as Xcode goes, Xcode only needs 4gb of ram for it to work but the more ram the better. You will never need 32gb of ram for Xcode unless your building and testing VR games at once.

The biggest thing you should be considering is screen real estate, Xcode has a lot going on screen wise you should visit an Apple store and see how Xcode looks on a 13” vs 15”

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Objective-C used to be the main programming language for iOS, and now Swift is a complete replacement for it. Obj-C is still supported, but if you learn Swift there's no need for Obj-C.

However, neither of those languages have anything to do with what makes apps beautiful.

A lot of the magic comes from Interface Builder, a graphical tool that lets you design and layout all of the UI elements of your app. It even turns that into a working iOS app for you! It just doesn't do anything. That's what Swift is for - to actually program all of those buttons, sliders, and text fields to do something when the user interacts with them.

If you're interested in any of this, grab XCode for your Mac (it's free) and pop up Interface Builder. It's great motivation to get started with coding.

As for coding, plan on that part taking a while to learn. It's kind of like learning an instrument - you'll be spending a month practicing scales before you can start using Swift to make real apps.

XCode itself brands as an IDE https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ide/ so I'd really like to count it as an IDE :)

> I have never heard anyone being unhappy with the editor and moving back to an IDE.

I would like to point out Brian K. who is very happy with Gogland after using VIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHET-k4zz4 for a long while.

> Let's agree to disagree.

Agreed :)

> xcode

Xcode is Apple's developer environment for Mac OS X and their other operating systems.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

It's really old, it started its life in the late 80's as a developer tool for the NeXT OS which Apple bought and turned into OS X, iOS, tvOS and watchOS.

Instruments is made for this kinda stuff. It's part of the Xcode dev suite (Requires apple developer login) and I'm unsure if that suite is included by default.

Instruments user guide

I have not personally used this particular tool due to not working with Macs in a while, but it sounds like you should be able to select the Premiere Pro app, and watch File Activity to see what exactly it's accessing at startup.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable would be able to provide exact directions.

Your C++ program should have an extension of .cpp. So your file should be named shoes.cpp.

Then you want to install a compiler. A compiler is what will take your C++ code and compile it into assembly code, something that is easier for a computer to understand. If you are on Mac/Linux, you can use g++.

Ubuntu Guide to installing g++

For Mac, just download XCode

Now in your terminal, you want to navigate to the folder your application is in.

Navigating in the Terminal. Pay special attention to the cd and ls commands.

Once you're in the folder that your application is in, you will type the following commands in your terminal:

g++ shoes.cpp

This compiles your code. By default your program is named a.out. To run your program, you will execute:

./a.out

The a.out is the name of the file, and the ./ ahead of it is telling the terminal to execute a program that is in the current directory.

Xcode is free and works perfectly well... https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

It has to be said that the whole thing smells a bit funny, tbh. Only one CS course stinks of "no CS department", and the language chosen is almost the complete opposite of what they should be teaching you (Python). I think the expertise of the professor in question is, well, questionable.

I don't use a mac, but I have heard tell that XCode is popular among those who do.

Addendum: I am a huge fan of Eclipse CDT. There are many who don't like it, but that's why there are many IDEs. It does have a bit of a learning curve due to its immense number of options (one of the things folks don't like about it), but it will also do a decent job of working out-of-the-box. If you use CDT^1, you will need to install gcc or clang, as well.

[1] I am assuming you are doing C++ development because this is /r/cpp_questions...

Okay so this was the article linked in a discussion in /r/jailbreak (which I can't link to due to this sub's rules).

Reading more about the subject it seems like Xcode will be required for a lot of stuff still, so I suppose my Hackintosh project remains relevant.

You can do this even without a jailbreak using Safari on a Mac. If you haven't already, you need to open Xcode, go to Window → Devices, and mark the device for developer use. Then, open Safari and enable the Develop menu on the Advanced tab of the Preferences window, and then you should be able to pick to inspect a tab from Safari on your phone in the Develop menu.

It should be completely possible to do this without the use of Safari, a Mac, or even a computer. However, there's no tools I'm aware of that would let you do so.

True IOS apps are written in Objective-C or (and going forwards, likely more) Apple Swift using Xcode. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ - it's free, unless you publish to the app store, whereupon it's cheap. You need a Mac (hackintosh, maybe - no experience of that) and a recent version of OS X. See link for full details :)

Or for an iOS application:

Get a Mac computer
Get the XCode application
Set up an Apple Developer account (an individual developer program costs $99 per year)
Learn Objective-C or Swift
Write code that does what you want
Submit your app for approval

I can confirm that iTunes 12 will work after updating Xcode 6.1 beta. Go to https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/ and download the 6.1 beta for Yosemite, then copy it locally to your hard drive. Once it's copied, open Xcode-beta. It will prompt you that it needs to update files -- this is the important step, I think -- do this. It will require you quit iTunes to update. Once it's finished, install per normal.

Yep, I noticed it a few days ago, but I mistakenly thought that the new one was the old one since it looks a bit derpy (edit: or "off model", for you character designers out there). The Xcode screenshot is one of the few shots that actually uses the correct icon!

Code::Blocks is awesome if you're on windows, but sadly the support for Mac just isn't near as good. I am on a macbook pro and I have to use Code::Blocks for assignments in my programming class, and the mac version frankly sucks. Terrible graphical support, which isn't too bad, it's something I can deal with, but constant crashing and freezes is something that's really hard to deal with. I would prefer to just use Xcode if I could.

For anyone reading this thread and looking for a good IDE for Mac computers, use XCode. It's a fantastic development suite, and it's free from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

I would stick to Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

And use a 2d framework, with a game engine included, like cocos2d for IPhone..

There's a nice tutorial for beginners (not much about coding, but some thoughts about game dev tools): http://www.bytesizeadventures.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-iphone-game-development/

that's not true i did my dissertation on iOS development and it was certainly free when i downloaded it before christmas. must have added the cost fairly recently if they did

also https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

>https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer\_Tools/Additional\_Tools\_for\_Xcode\_11.4/Additional\_Tools\_for\_Xcode\_11.4.dmg

Sorry for the thread necro, was hunting for this app too to toggle between bt interfaces and wondered why it wasn't in my xcode install. I usually pull the current tools in to get ioreg explorer. I guess I won't overwrite that folder anymore without checking.

Go to https://developer.apple.com/xcode/resources/ Sign in, Additional Downloads. Scroll. Apple's site gets odd about direct linking at times.

You could just run the linux executable inside the docker container though?

Anyway, it'd be weird and slow but you *could* cross-compile Mac executables inside your Linux container. Assuming you don't need xcode etc.

Have you considered doing this in cloud? https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

No, Swift is Apple exclusive (though there are attempts to use it for backend development as well). Jetpack Compose on Android offers a similar expirience to what SwiftUi does in iOS. Instead of using an XML based UI, it is declarative in your source code. I recommend checking them out on the platform you choose.

There isn't really an option from what I know, I have a drawer of semi working Ipads and Iphones to test with. But If you have an apple around to run as the build host you can use Visual Studio on windows and use Xamerain. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/tools/ios-simulator/ but I'm pretty sure you still need to be runing xcode on a apple somewhere. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Thanks! The IDE you saw was probably Xcode, but I also use Visual Studio Code sometimes, and the programming language is Swift.

Ok, i read both threads. You're trying to fix sync'ing. I'm going to go through everything, sorry if you're already tried it...

Try a new/different lightning cable and a different port on the MBP
Install the Xcode Beta https://developer.apple.com/xcode/resources/
Rename your iphone (settings, general, about)
Create a new user account on MBP and try from that account]
Backup, wipe and install macOS 11 clean on MBP
Try on a completely different computer (PC or Mac), this will likely clear the iphone of any issues and it will be the MBP. I like #5 above. Having a good external HD handy for a reasonably fast TimeMachine backup, you can erase and reinstall macOS pretty quickly.

Syncing via cable is rare, in fact i only do it to sideload via altstore.io. What are you trying to sync and maybe we could offer alternative methods.

yes, stay with Swift, look for iOS developer courses. Don't buy expensive ones! There are free ones on youtube, our look out for sales on learning platforms.

SwiftUI is a framework that uses declarative syntax to build UI. It still uses Swift, but it's a different breed.

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