Released: Apr 28, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2016.1

Swift

• Use code folding for Swift declarations and focus on the most important parts of your code.
• Expand or collapse any declaration recursively.
• Expand or collapse all declarations in the current file.
• The Swift parser in AppCode 2016.1 now supports more language constructions including
  • Types conforming to the OptionSetType protocol.
  • Self type.
  • Variadic parameters in closures and functions.
  • Typealias initializers.
  • Function array types.
• Completion for Objective-C types used in Swift now shows the relevant substitutions for any type used.

Swift Debugger

• Change Core Data object values without stopping your debugging session.

Build Messages

• The parsing of build messages has been significantly improved. Now the Messages tool window displays all errors and warnings in a convenient way, skipping all irrelevant information.
• Build progress messages have been updated to show user-friendly descriptions for particular build phases.

CocoaPods Support

• Edit your Podfiles using recent syntax additions including use_frameworks!, abstract_target and other keywords.

C++ Language Support

• Variadic Templates – The C++ parser in AppCode now supports variadic templates providing several fixes, especially for problems in overload resolution and false positives in code analysis for related code constructs.
• Auto-import - Symbol completion and import quick-fix for STL headers now generate correct imports.
• Quick Documentation Improvements - Quick Documentation popup (F1) now provides additional details covering lambda expressions, namespace aliases and explicit instantiation, as well as links to the referenced types.

Source Directories Management

• Manage your project sources and libraries independently from the project structure and choose where to perform sources indexing, code generation, refactorings and more.

Version Control

• Find changes faster in the Diff Viewer with by-word difference highlighting.
• Work with multiple Git worktrees directly from AppCode and manage them as regular repositories.
• Rebase your feature branches in one click using the Checkout with Rebase action in the Branches context menu.
• If using Mercurial, now you can compare file revisions between branches.

Other New Features

• Right-to-left languages (Arabic and Hebrew) are now supported in the editor.
• CoffeeScript and Stylus are bundled in AppCode.
• Improved UI for the Attach to local process action.
• Easily edit custom properties/VM options.