My Xcode Plugins

The Spring Festival holiday is three days away and I can't focus on studying RAC, so I'll use this spare time to organize some notes. Here's a quick rundown of the Xcode plugins I use. 😃

• Alcatraz: An Xcode plugin manager. After installation, restart Xcode and you'll find "Package Manager" under the "Window" menu. Enjoy!

PS: Xcode plugins are installed under ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/. You can also navigate to this directory manually to remove plugins.

//Installation
curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/alcatraz/Alcatraz/master/Scripts/install.sh | sh

//Uninstall
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/Alcatraz.xcplugin

//To remove all packages installed via Alcatraz
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Alcatraz/

• VVDocumenter-Xcode: Type three forward slashes to generate documentation comments.

• KSImageNamed-Xcode: Automatically lists all image file names in the project after imageNamed:, with thumbnails.

• FuzzyAutocompletePlugin: Fuzzy code completion — a must-have for the lazy developer.

• XcodeColors: Works with LumberJack to display log output in different colors based on log level.

• Dash-Plugin-for-Xcode: Use Dash as a replacement for Xcode's built-in documentation.

• ACCodeSnippetRepositoryPlugin: Code snippet management — another must-have for the lazy developer.

That's all I'm currently using — not that many when you list them out. (⊙o⊙)… I rarely use the others, and I didn't install them to avoid slowing down Xcode.

• ColorSense-for-Xcode: Useful for UI work — a color picker pops up for UIColor or NSColor methods. That said, since designers usually provide exact values, it rarely comes in handy.

• CocoaPods for Xcode: A CocoaPods plugin for Xcode, but I still prefer using the command line.