Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode(scottwillsey.com)
516 points by speckx | 218 comments
A blog post by Scott Willsey explaining how to build and ship Mac and iOS apps, including via vibe coding, without ever opening Xcode.
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Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode(apple.com)
356 points by davidbarker | 308 comments
Apple Newsroom announcement that Xcode 26.3 integrates coding agents such as Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex for autonomous app development tasks.
Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode(developer.apple.com)
463 points by zora_goron | 364 comments
Apple developer documentation page with the Xcode 26 Beta 7 release notes, covering new SDKs and features including Claude Sonnet integration.
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc(apple.com)
807 points by thm | 447 comments
Apple Newsroom press release from June 9, 2025 announcing developer tools including on-device Foundation Models access, LLM integration in Xcode, and a new design.
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build(swift.org)
582 points by dayanruben | 254 comments
Swift.org blog post announcing that Apple is open sourcing Swift Build, the build engine used by Xcode, as a step toward unified cross-platform Swift build tools.
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock(github.com)
940 points by Bluestein | 272 comments
GitHub repository for Ball, a macOS toy app that puts a bouncing ball in your dock; the page shows a commit view.
Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro(apple.com)
348 points by todsacerdoti | 440 comments
Apple press release from June 21, 2023 announcing the availability of the visionOS SDK for building spatial apps for Apple Vision Pro.