Xcode users - any tipcs for cleaning up the IDE?

[purbeast0]

last night i updated from xcode 3.x to 4.2 because i needed to build with the ios6 sdk to meet new submission requirements. and man, 4.2 is A LOT different than 3.x was, and i thought 3.x was horrible as far as the interface goes.

i do know with 3.x though you could customize it slightly, and i finally did customize it a bit to my likings.

but opening 4.2 last night for the first time i felt like such a noob and didn't know where anything was. took me a good 5-10 minutes to figure out how to even look at files in my project. and then it started opening text windows next to eachother vertically. i was not a fan of the thin real estate for each window so i figured out how to hide one of them.

but i was just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to customize the ide to have a nicer interface, and if so, what did they change?

 

[Markbnj]

I was looking forward to 4 because it's supposed to support an actual dark theme. Will be looking forward to hearing about your experiences with it.

 

[purbeast0]

I was looking forward to 4 because it's supposed to support an actual dark theme. Will be looking forward to hearing about your experiences with it.

yeah i'm going to mess around with it more next week after i port this app over to android, which should take me a couple hours this weekend. i really didn't mess around with it much or do any devving in 4.2. i had built it on 3.x and submitted it to the app store via application loader when it got rejected instantly due to not meeting iphone5 requirements. so that forced me to figure out how to upgrade.

once i did, i simply built it and modified my main xib to stretch to fit the ip5, tweaked a couple new settings (the gloss setting for iphone5 is a dfiferent property in the plist now), and built it. i didn't do any actually development in it yet though.

gonna start on another app idea i have probably next week, so i'll let you know how it seems to go.

 

[Markbnj]

yeah i'm going to mess around with it more next week after i port this app over to android, which should take me a couple hours this weekend. i really didn't mess around with it much or do any devving in 4.2. i had built it on 3.x and submitted it to the app store via application loader when it got rejected instantly due to not meeting iphone5 requirements. so that forced me to figure out how to upgrade.

once i did, i simply built it and modified my main xib to stretch to fit the ip5, tweaked a couple new settings (the gloss setting for iphone5 is a dfiferent property in the plist now), and built it. i didn't do any actually development in it yet though.

gonna start on another app idea i have probably next week, so i'll let you know how it seems to go.

Did you get version 4 through an update to the ADT? Or are you building the environment out yourself?

 

[purbeast0]

Did you get version 4 through an update to the ADT? Or are you building the environment out yourself?

i just got it through the links on developer.apple.com in the member center. found the 4.2 version because that is the most up to date one that works on snow leopard. then i had to manually install ios 6.1 sdk by getting it out of latest xcode bundle.

 

[Markbnj]

I'm an idiot. For some reason I had it in mind that you were talking about Android and Eclipse.

 

[purbeast0]

lol oh ok. and hell no eclipse is the worst ide i've ever used actually. xcode is the 2nd worst.

i do android dev with netbeans.

 

[mosco]

Anyone reason you are using 4.2 and not the latest?

Anyway, xcode is what it is.

If you are looking for something different, try the trial of appCode. I have tried it a couple times and it is definitely better in some ways than xCode, but I can't get used to it and its definitely not a "mac like" program.

 

[purbeast0]

Anyone reason you are using 4.2 and not the latest?

Anyway, xcode is what it is.

If you are looking for something different, try the trial of appCode. I have tried it a couple times and it is definitely better in some ways than xCode, but I can't get used to it and its definitely not a "mac like" program.

because i'm on snow leopard and can't get the latest one.