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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">Apple Developer Tools</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">3.1 (1096) / April 2008</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.apple.com">Apple Developer</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Apple Developer Tools</b> are a suite of software tools from <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> to aid in making software dynamic titles for the <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> platforms. The developer tools were formerly included on macOS install media, but are now exclusively distributed over the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>. As of <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Sonoma" title="MacOS Sonoma">MacOS 14.6.1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xcode" title="Xcode">Xcode</a> is available as a free download from the <a href="/wiki/Mac_App_Store" title="Mac App Store">Mac App Store</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applications">Applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Applet_Launcher">Applet Launcher</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Applet Launcher"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A graphical interface for JavaScript's Plug-in, which aids developers by demonstrating how Java applets perform on macOS. Provides tools to adjust the performance, behavior and user experience in applets in development. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audio_Unit_Lab">Audio Unit Lab</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Audio Unit Lab"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A graphic presentation of audio units helping software developers to examine their results in decibels. AU Lab can be used to test audio units, conduct live mixing, and playback of audio content. Audio units are controlled visually with the audio unit's graphic interface and touch screen.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computer_Hardware_Understanding_Development_Tools">Computer Hardware Understanding Development Tools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Computer Hardware Understanding Development Tools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A set of software tools, collectively Computer Hardware Understanding Development Tools (CHUD Tools) measure software performance on macOS, to aid in optimizing. Also provides hardware system benchmarks. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Core_Image_Fun_House">Core Image Fun House</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Core Image Fun House"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Used in testing <a href="/wiki/Core_Image" title="Core Image">Core Image</a> units, which function similar to <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop">Adobe Photoshop</a> filters. Each has a specific action, with parameters customize the action. Showcases Core Image, a technology introduced in <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger" title="Mac OS X Tiger">Mac OS X 10.4</a>, supported by newer graphic hardware. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CrashReporterPrefs">CrashReporterPrefs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: CrashReporterPrefs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A developer utility for setting report parameters for Apple's <a href="/wiki/Crash_Reporter_(OS_X)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crash Reporter (OS X)">Crash Reporter</a> application. </p> <ul><li>Basic: Shows a dialog asking the user what to do.</li> <li>Developer: Provides additional debug info and automatically shows the mail to Apple window.</li> <li>Server: Runs silent, but keeps all the logs.</li> <li>None: Disables the dialog prompt. Crash reports are neither displayed nor logged.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FileMerge">FileMerge</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: FileMerge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A staple of macOS's developer tools since the days of <a href="/wiki/NeXTSTEP" title="NeXTSTEP">NeXTSTEP</a>, FileMerge graphically compares two or more versions of a file. True to its name, FileMerge allows the user to easily merge the two or more versions into one file. The utility is often used to track changes to source code. </p><p>macOS's <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">opendiff</span> command provides the ability to launch FileMerge from the command line. The <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">-ancestor</span> parameter can be used for <a href="/wiki/Merge_(revision_control)#Three-way_merge" class="mw-redirect" title="Merge (revision control)">three-way merging</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Help_Indexer">Help Indexer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Help Indexer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Creates an <a href="/wiki/Index_(database)" class="mw-redirect" title="Index (database)">index file</a> for the macOS built-in <a href="/wiki/Help_Viewer" class="mw-redirect" title="Help Viewer">Help Viewer</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="icns_Browser">icns Browser</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: icns Browser"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Views the resources for an <a href="/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Icon Image">.icns</a> file, displaying the Mini, Small, Large, Huge, Thumbnail & Tile sizes in all <a href="/wiki/Color_depth" title="Color depth">color depths</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mask_(computing)" title="Mask (computing)">masks</a>. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Icon_Composer">Icon Composer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Icon Composer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Icon Composer</b> was an <a href="/wiki/Icon_(computing)" title="Icon (computing)">icon</a> editor that does not have any editing features other than composing <a href="/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Icon Image">Apple Icon Image</a> files and <a href="/wiki/ICO_(file_format)" title="ICO (file format)">Windows ICO files</a>. External editors must do all the image manipulation, then the results may be imported into the converter to create the finished icon. As of Xcode 8.2, Icon Composer is no longer available in Additional Tools, as it cannot create high resolution icons. Apple recommends using the command-line utility iconutil, which ships with macOS.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Instruments">Instruments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Instruments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Instruments_(software)" title="Instruments (software)">Instruments (software)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Instruments_(software)" title="Instruments (software)">Instruments</a> is a GUI for tracing framework <a href="/wiki/DTrace" title="DTrace">DTrace</a> from Sun's <a href="/wiki/OpenSolaris" title="OpenSolaris">OpenSolaris</a>. It is used to profile time usage, memory allocations, system activity, call trace analysis, GPU performance analysis, energy logging (on iOS devices) etc.<sup id="cite_ref-Instruments_Help_page_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Instruments_Help_page-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jar_Bundler">Jar Bundler</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Jar Bundler"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> tool that aids in packaging an application's component files into a single <a href="/wiki/Double_click" class="mw-redirect" title="Double click">double-clickable</a> application. Properties can be modified to optimize the code. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MallocDebug">MallocDebug</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: MallocDebug"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assistance for assessing memory usage and detecting <a href="/wiki/Memory_leak" title="Memory leak">memory leaks</a> in programs. </p><p>Assesses an application's memory usage by monitoring a user as they interact with an application, which allows MallocDebug to build a memory profile that unfortunately is limited in size. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="OpenGL_Driver_Monitor">OpenGL Driver Monitor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: OpenGL Driver Monitor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Real time access to the inner workings of the graphics processing unit. Runs locally or over a network using <a href="/wiki/Bonjour_(software)" title="Bonjour (software)">Bonjour</a> which is less likely to interfere with the statistics it is gathering with the exception of some disk fragmentation devices. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="OpenGL_Profiler">OpenGL Profiler</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: OpenGL Profiler"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This tool assists developers in debugging and optimizing <a href="/wiki/OpenGL" title="OpenGL">OpenGL</a> usage under macOS. </p><p>Supported features: </p> <ul><li>Launch or attach to an application</li> <li>Breakpoints and execution control</li> <li>Error detection including thread safety checks</li> <li>Scripts</li> <li>Buffer views</li> <li>Resource viewing/editing</li> <li>Statistics gathering</li> <li>OpenGL call traces with stack traces and timings</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="OpenGL_Shader_Builder">OpenGL Shader Builder</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: OpenGL Shader Builder"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An integrated environment to develop and debug <a href="/wiki/OpenGL" title="OpenGL">OpenGL</a> GPU programs (<a href="/wiki/Shader" title="Shader">Shaders</a>) under macOS. </p><p>Features supported by OpenGL Shader Builder: </p> <ul><li>Realtime entry</li> <li>Preview window with shaders applied to a textured plane, sphere or teapot</li> <li>Example shaders</li> <li>Syntax checking</li> <li>Debugging and analysis of vertex / fragment programs</li> <li>Export to Xcode</li></ul> <p>One notable feature is 'Export to Xcode'. A sample Xcode project is created with <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> source code to initialize <a href="/wiki/OpenGL" title="OpenGL">OpenGL</a> (using the <a href="/wiki/OpenGL_Utility_Toolkit" title="OpenGL Utility Toolkit">GLUT</a> library) and run the shader program. </p><p>Note that this program is no longer recommended for editing GLSL shaders as "GLSLEditorSample," available as an example program, is generally regarded as superior. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PackageMaker">PackageMaker</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: PackageMaker"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Creates application <code>.pkg</code> installer <a href="/wiki/Bundle_(macOS)" title="Bundle (macOS)">bundles</a> for installing applications using the <a href="/wiki/Installer_(macOS)" class="mw-redirect" title="Installer (macOS)">Installer</a> application. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pixie">Pixie</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Pixie"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Magnifying_glass" title="Magnifying glass">magnifying glass</a> application for magnifying small sections of the computer's screen, centered around the mouse <a href="/wiki/Cursor_(computers)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cursor (computers)">cursor</a>, giving the user a detailed view of the screen, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Pixel" title="Pixel">pixel</a> coordinates of the mouse. Provides several levels of zoom, "locking" the image under the mouse for closer examination, and saves the magnified image one of several formats. Helps ensure visual elements are aligned precisely. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Property_List_Editor">Property List Editor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Property List Editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Edits application preference <a href="/wiki/Plist" class="mw-redirect" title="Plist">plist</a> files. As of Xcode 4, Property List Editor is no longer included as a separate application and all editing of plist files is done within Xcode. The last stand-alone version was version 5.3 in Xcode 3.2.6. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quartz_Composer">Quartz Composer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Quartz Composer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quartz_Composer" title="Quartz Composer">Quartz Composer</a></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Visual_programming_language" title="Visual programming language">visual programming language</a> for processing and <a href="/wiki/Rendering_(computer_graphics)" title="Rendering (computer graphics)">rendering</a> data. Using <a href="/wiki/OpenGL" title="OpenGL">OpenGL</a>, <a href="/wiki/Core_Image" title="Core Image">Core Image</a>, <a href="/wiki/Core_Video" title="Core Video">Core Video</a>, and other technologies to build an <a href="/wiki/API" title="API">API</a> and serves as a simple visual programming paradigm. Quartz Composer is a core technology of the macOS. Quartz Composer creations work in any <a href="/wiki/QuickTime" title="QuickTime">QuickTime</a>-aware application (beginning with Mac OS X 10.4), from the Quartz Composer application, or embedded into <a href="/wiki/Cocoa_(API)" title="Cocoa (API)">Cocoa</a> or <a href="/wiki/Carbon_(API)" title="Carbon (API)">Carbon</a> applications. </p><p>Quartz Composer has many similarities to <a href="/wiki/Max/MSP" class="mw-redirect" title="Max/MSP">Max/MSP</a> although its primary usage is for graphical rather than audio processing. Offers the ability to construct interactive video compositions that react to audio or <a href="/wiki/MIDI" title="MIDI">MIDI</a> signals and can be played from any <a href="/wiki/QuickTime" title="QuickTime">QuickTime</a> aware application. </p><p>Pierre-Olivier Latour originally developed the predecessor to Quartz Composer under the name PixelShox Studio.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A resurgence in interest in Quartz Composer has come about, as the <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> design team has been showcasing their utilization of the program to prototype interactions that they couldn't have otherwise depicted with flat mockups in <a href="/wiki/Photoshop" class="mw-redirect" title="Photoshop">Photoshop</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Repeat_After_Me">Repeat After Me</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Repeat After Me"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Optimizes the performance of the built-in <a href="/wiki/Text-to-speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Text-to-speech">text-to-speech</a> software for macOS. Tests the operating system's <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phonemic</a> translation engine, creates graphs of the generated tone, to visually adjust the intonation, and records samples for reference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shark">Shark</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apple_Developer_Tools&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Shark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shark is a <a href="/wiki/Profiling_(computer_programming)" title="Profiling (computer programming)">profiler</a>, used by <a href="/wiki/Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">software developers</a> to optimize software programs on macOS. 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