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Customizing Xcode

The Xcode development environment does its best to provide an easy, intuitive interface for the most common development tasks that you face. However, there are many different factors that affect your requirements for your development environment. Luckily, Xcode is also a very flexible tool, providing many different ways to customize the development process.

The following chapters describe many of the ways in which you can customize Xcode to make it a more productive and custom-tailored environment for your development. Some features are of particular use to developers who are familiar with BBEdit, CodeWarrior, or MPW, but most should be useful to any developer.

In particular, these chapters show you how to customize Xcode’s user interface, change user settings with Xcode Preferences, and add functionality to the Xcode application using the User Scripts menu. In addition, many of the chapters that appear in previous sections of this document also describe ways in which you can use Xcode to customize your development environment. It does not describe how to extend the Xcode application.

Xcode offers many opportunities for customization, including:



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