Xcode 3 Unleashed

Chapter . Introduction

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• What Xcode Is

• What’s New in Xcode 3

• Obtaining Xcode

• Installing Xcode

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From the moment it first published Mac OS X, Apple, Inc., has made a complete suite of application development tools available to every user of the Macintosh. Since Mac OS X version 10.3, those tools have been led by Xcode, the integrated development environment Apple’s own engineers use to develop system software and applications such as Safari, iTunes, Mail, and iChat. If you own a Mac, these same tools are in your hands today.

What’s New in Xcode 3

In October 2007, with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced version 3 of the Xcode developer tools suite. Among the changes were

• Extensive ...