Neo & XCode

[MrCookieMonster]

Haven’t been hands on with development for years but wouldn’t mind dabbling with it again.

Would Xcode run on the Neo (or VS)? Obviously I am not talking about doing anything major.

Unsure as on one hand it’s running macOS but on the other iPhone silicon…

 

[JPack]

No reason why it wouldn’t. The idea of “iPhone chip/silicon” needs to go away.

The fundamental architecture is the same. What’s different are the number of cores, specialized AI/ML extensions for better performance, Thunderbolt controller, number of DDR interfaces, cache size, etc. The A18 chip has the minimum, A18 Pro has more, M4 even more, M4 Pro a lot more, etc.

 

[Starfia]

Hooray!

SDK and system requirements - Xcode - Apple Developer

Learn about using Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment, to develop software.

developer.apple.com

 

[MrCookieMonster]

No reason why it wouldn’t. The idea of “iPhone chip/silicon” needs to go away.

The fundamental architecture is the same. What’s different are the number of cores, specialized AI/ML extensions for better performance, Thunderbolt controller, number of DDR interfaces, cache size, etc. The A18 chip has the minimum, A18 Pro has more, M4 even more, M4 Pro a lot more, etc.

Agree. Reason I asked is it’s still not available on iPad Pro which is from silicon perspective more advanced.

 

[MrCookieMonster]

Hooray!

SDK and system requirements - Xcode - Apple Developer

Learn about using Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment, to develop software.

developer.apple.com

So only requisite is macOS version?

 

[Starfia]

So only requisite is macOS version?

Except in the case of development for the visionOS, it looks like. Each macOS version maps to a specific set of devices.

 

[MrCookieMonster]

Except in the case of development for the visionOS, it looks like. Each macOS version maps to a specific set of devices.

Thanks.

Purchase incoming 😀

 

[Internaut]

Haven’t been hands on with development for years but wouldn’t mind dabbling with it again.

Would Xcode run on the Neo (or VS)? Obviously I am not talking about doing anything major.

Unsure as on one hand it’s running macOS but on the other iPhone silicon…

Any 8Gb Apple Silicon Mac is good for basic development. More challenging stuff with heavyweight IDEs? Depends on your comfort with memory pressure spending a lot of time in the red. I'm guessing the Neo is more powerful than the base M1 Macbook Air.

 

[hans1972]

Isn't it recommended to have 16Gb for the AI stuff connected to Xcode?

 

[lambsauce]

Has anyone had the chance to gain experience with this? I would also appreciate feedback regarding Android Studio and Flutter/Kotlin.