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Our Cocoa Tools
Every Cocoa developer has their own preferred tools for writing code, looking up documentation, creating icons and preparing apps for the App Store. Here are some of our present favorites:
Xcode (of course). A few warts aside, it’s an incredible IDE. We also love Swift.
AppCode: A fine adjunct to Xcode that adds extensive refactoring and code quality checks, as well as very intelligent code intentions.
Accessorizer: Generates code for properties, initializers, accessors, archiving/dearchiving, Core Data, KVO and much, much more.
Dash: A better documentation browser than the one built into Xcode, it also includes documentation sets for Cocoa-related languages such as SQLite, OpenGL and Ruby.
PaintCode: Translates vector graphics into pure Cocoa code to reduce program size.
ClassMaker: Generates the CoreData boilerplate code for a given SQLite database.
Slender: Pares down Xcode projects by removing unnecessary assets.
Prepo: Icon preparation tool.
RubyMine: A Ruby IDE from the same folks that make AppCode.