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by krabpaaltje 3409 days ago
Professional android (and previously ios) developer here.

If you know what to do then AS is pretty great. If you want to compare it with xcode then xcode is a sad state of affairs imho, lacking a lot of features that AS has.

It was a bit painful to have to see my ios colleagues have to resort to textsearch to find out where a certain member was being accessed, i mean come on.

The little ios dev I still do I do in Jetbrains' AppCode. Much better for actually coding.
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dep_b 3409 days ago
[quote]It was a bit painful to have to see my ios colleagues have to resort to textsearch to find out where a certain member was being accessed[/quote]

I can imagine. Especially when it's one of the few features that actually exists in Xcode.

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babesh 3409 days ago
Put cursor on the method. Tap the icon of a 2x2 grid for the file. Tap the callers menu item.
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dep_b 3409 days ago
Yeah now I read my post again the sarcasm wasn't completely obvious. Sorry. Still I was working today in Xcode and the reason I still use CMD+SHIFT+F and T so often is because it's so blazingly fast. Instant. Other IDE's have a full text search that is much slower than a more exact method anyway.
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john-foley 3408 days ago
I'm with you on AppCode. Waaay better editing/completion/navigation than XCode.
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