JetBrains AppCode Blog

AppCode 1.5.3, the newest update for the alternative Objective-C IDE, adds some fixes for critical issues and a number of improvements such as:

• Better device support
• Improved LLDB performance
• Better Xcode schemes support
• New Objective-C language features support
• Better Simulator session handling
• and lots of other fixes reported by you.

We’re not just listening to your feedback, we’re making AppCode better as fast as we can!
Check out the complete changelist for this update.

Use ‘Check for updates’ from AppCode to install the update without re-downloading. Or download the new version from AppCode web site.

We’ve just uploaded a preview build for a forthcoming AppCode 1.5.3 update.

Fixes for a number of critical issues are included. Here are some selected ones:

• Improved device support
• LLDB performance improvements
• Better Xcode schemes support
• New Objective-C language features support
• Simulator session is not started in some situations (OC-1322)

Check out the complete changelist.

You are welcome to download the early access build, try it and tell us if some issues remain.

One day after we released AppCode 1.5.1 an update for Xcode appeared and broke LLDB in AppCode.

So, we are pushing AppCode 1.5.2, a hotfix release to restore LLDB support. A couple of other fixes also made it into this version.

Use ‘Check for updates’ from AppCode to install the update without re-downloading. Or download the new version from AppCode web site.

We’ve just made AppCode 1.5.1 available, a recommended bugfix update for AppCode 1.5 that fixes the most critical issues reported after the release.

Check out the full list of fixes and download the update from our site.

We were unable to build the patch for this particular update therefore you will need to re-download the whole distributive. We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope you like our DMG background.

Please welcome — AppCode 1.5 is officially released!

If you read the AppCode 1.5 What’s New page and check the release notes you’ll see that we’ve improved literally every part of the IDE and have upgraded some of them to a new level.

Here are some changes that make us especially proud:

• Almost three times as many refactorings. We’ve added extract parameter, extract instance variable, etc. You can inline anything and do things like convert local variable to ivar/property/parameter in the blink of an eye.
• The debugger got a number of great improvements, e.g. code completion in the debugger console, exception breakpoints, viewing the contents of STL container objects, etc.
• We’ve improved C++ coding with auto-import and a better code completion.
• New views: ‘Hierarchy’ to explore imports hierarchy and ‘Call Hierarchy’ to examine your code execution flow.
• Better Xcode interoperability is ensured: Xcode Schemes are auto synced with run configuration, added ability to manage targets in AppCode and Xcode 4.4 is supported.
• We’ve sped up project indexing and reload after external changes.
• And we’ve further updated the IDE UI.

For more details and screenshots, check AppCode web site and download the smartest Objective-C IDE ever!

Note, that if you own an AppCode 1.0 license, 1.5 is a FREE update for you, according to our 1 year of free updates licensing policy.

Develop with pleasure!
-The AppCode Team

Before we can take a pause to enjoy some spring sun and download peaks, we have AppCode 1.5 to finish. And it looks as we are pretty much ready for the release, so today’s build is assigned a ‘Release Candidate’ label. It mostly contains bugfixes and some improvements to the new functionality of version 1.5.

As usual, the AppCode 1.5 Release Candidate build and the Release Notes are available on the AppCode EAP page.

We very much appreciate your bug reports at this time.

Develop with pleasure!
-The AppCode Team

New AppCode 1.5 EAP build (#114.279) for you to try!
New feature listings get shorter as we’re nearing the feature freeze for version 1.5. But you should like these ones.

- Xcode 4.4 support

- Changing the targets membership. Requested by many of you and now available. So, do not forget — your votes in our tracker do count

- Boxing/unboxing quickfixes for primitive types, pointers and structs (hit Alt+Enter to invoke them):

- Subversion 1.7, TFS and ClearCase VCS support
- Added Visual Studio and ReSharper keymaps We apologize for misleading you, guys – these schemes are not released yet.

Download the new build from the AppCode EAP page.
Check the full list of changes since the last EAP build.
And let us know what you think!

Develop with pleasure!
-The AppCode Team

Hello everyone!

We’ve got something new for you to try in a new AppCode 1.5 EAP build (#114.68):
1) Inline refactoring for methods, functions, local variables, parameters, constants, macros and typedefs
2) Configuration of the order of the generated code (check Preferences | Code Style | Code generation):

3) Debugger: ability to attach to a running process
4) Many fixes in C++ debugging
5) Hierarchy view shows imports hierarchy

6) Subversion 1.7 support (work in progress).

Here’s a full list of fixes in this build.

Try it and let us know what you think. Our AppCode forum and issue tracker are there for you.

By the way, we now have a new easy to remember URL for all of our Early Access Preview programs. Go to eap.jetbrains.com for the complete list, or to eap.jetbrains.com/objc/ for the AppCode EAP.

Develop with pleasure!
-The AppCode Team