AppCode Starts 2020.1 EAP: Type Hierarchy in Swift, Documentation Comments Generation, New Code Assistance Actions, and More!

Stanislav Dombrovsky

Today we are starting the Early Access Program for AppCode 2020.1, and the first build is already available to download from our site.

Type Hierarchy

Type Hierarchy (⌃H) now works for Swift in the same way that it does for Objective-C:

Your feedback on the feature is very welcome (note that there are several known issues filled as OC-11220 subtasks).

Code Assistance

This EAP brings new code assistance actions for Swift:

• Replace if with guard intention:
  
• Unnecessary parentheses inspection:
  
• Unnecessary tuple wrap inspection:
  

Documentation Comments

You may have noticed this feature in AppCode 2019.3, though at the time it wasn’t ready for the public announcement. We’ve finished it’s implementation for the 2020.1 EAP, and you can now generate markdown documentation in Swift simply by writing /// and pressing ⏎:

In addition, AppCode now correctly displays markdown documentation in the Quick Documentation (F1) popup:

JetBrains Mono

JetBrains Mono is a free and open-source font created by our company – and now it’s also the default font for all JetBrains IDEs!

That’s it for now. If you want to find out more, the full release notes are available here.

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