Friday, June 3, 2011

Speed up Xcode 4

Love it or hate it... Xcode 4 is here to stay...

Browsing the Apple forums I happened upon a post with the most excellent comment from crisB regarding speeding up Xcode 4.

My Xcode 4 was PAINFULLY slow...

Basically you need to remove the workspace file from the contents of your project.

Here's a before and after shot. My project's file was 50MB's and my Xcode 4 was running EXTREMELY slooooooow; I would have the spinning beach ball for several MINUTES!!





So this Automator workflow / droplet basically deletes the "project.xcworkspace" from the file you select or drop.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Enjoy...

PS What the heck happened to May!!!
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8 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 4, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    I hate to be stupid but I have never used automator. How do you use a droplet?

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  2. Gregory MeachJune 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM

    No problem, a droplet is an app that you just drop something on to. So in this case you drop your Xcode . xcodeproj file on to it and it just runs. No questions, no muss no fuss.
    :-)

    I have my icon creator sitting in my dock and I'll probably put this one there too so I can just drag my . xcodeproj file to it.

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  3. RuudJune 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM

    damn, you saved my day!

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  4. Gregory MeachJuly 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    @Ruud, glad to help!
    :-)

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  5. LaurentAugust 30, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    It seems to work! I was desperate and I planned to buy a new mac... Thanks a lot! My old project was 60MB then 45MB.

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  6. Gregory MeachAugust 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM

    Glad it helped, seems the newer Xcode 4.2 (beta) has corrected this problem since I haven't had to clean my iOS 5 projects.

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  7. Derek Evan SchrockSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    What's Xcode doing with and without this file installed?

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  8. Gregory MeachSeptember 9, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    The files saves your settings; window layout, what file was opened, etc. Once it has been removed Xcode treats it as a newly created project, with respect to its own settings.

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