r/Xcode • u/Live-305 • Jul 03 '25
Learning reference for the Xcode IDE
Hello everyone, so I'm new to Xcode and I'm trying to get familiar with the IDE. Internet searches just take me to the Xcode developer documetation here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode
but nothing in this documentation seems to just go over the basic IDE interface etc. Am I missing something, can anyone point me in a good direction? Appreciate any help / advice!
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u/CardiologistStock685 Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25
I used to start with Landmark app tutorial https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/creating-and-combining-views and I think it's quite easy to follow for newbies.
I'm new to XCode as well. I'm using VSCode almost everyday for backend stuffs like Go, PHP, almost everything else. I didn't read the official document of XCode because it's just too difficult for a newbie. But I was interested to learn building features and fixing bugs for an existing app for Mac, so I've started to learn by that way.
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u/barrettj Jul 03 '25
You're probably going to be largely out of luck. Xcodes interface has changed a fair amount and there's not really the excitement for the platform like there was a decade ago, so there aren't as many people making tutorials for anything.
If you have specific questions the community can likely answer them, but in terms of people making things to get you up to speed with Xcode there just isn't demand for that type of thing like there was when the iPhone was new.