Popular iPhone manufacturer Apple Inc. has provided various tools for the development of software & applications. Xcode is one of the development tools for developers; Actually Xcode is set of tools which can be used with Mac OS X for developing software produced by Apple Inc. Within the past one year after inception iPhone, developers worldwide have gained expertise in Xcode for the development of desired software for the iPhone. Developers can also build software for iPhone by using Xcode 3.1 onwards as X code provides development environment for iPhone, so non experts can hire Xcode developers for the development of iPhone applications.

Apple Inc. has released number of versions of Xcode and latest 3.1.2 released in November 2008. The Xcode set of tools also includes Apple’s developer documentation & interface builder which is applied for the construction of graphical interfaces. The set of Xcode includes various technological tools and programming languages which are used for software development such as:

• Improved version of free software GNU Compiler Collection for the purpose of compilation which supports various programming languages like AppleScript, Python, Java, FORTRAN, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++
• Source code of Ruby with wide range of programming models
• Cocoa, Carbon and Java

Making the application free from bugs is very necessary and for debugging, the set of Xcode uses GDB (GNU Debugger is a standard debugger for GNU software system).

Apple Inc. has introduced various technologies for the development of software and applications, it may be quiet difficult to use latest technologies for those who are not experts. Expert developers can easily understand the complexity of new technology and its versions for the software development as X code provides a variety of features which can benefit a lot to developers and ultimate users. Xcode help developers to take full advantages of all technologies which can ship in Mac OS X. Application developed in Xcode 2.1 version ensures running on PowerPC-based Macs as well as Intel-based Macs.