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The iOS Developer (and macOS) Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

Xcode

Showing/Hiding Panels

  • ⌘+0 Show or hide Navigator
  • ⌘+⌥+0 Show or hide Inspector
  • ⌘+1-9 Show and switch Navigator tabs
  • ⌘+⌥+1-4 Show and switch Inspector tabs
  • ⌘+⇧+Y Open or hide the Console

Showing and hiding panels

  • ⌘+⌥+J Filter in current Navigator Tab

Opening and Navigating Files

  • ⌘+⇧+O Open Quickly

    • Supports fuzzy search. Ex.: Type PrCVC to find ProductCollectionViewCell
    • Supports opening the file in a specific line. Ex.: ViewController.swift:58

  • ⌥+⇧ Choose where to open a file (either from Open Quickly, or when clicking in the Project Navigator)

  • ⌘+⇧+J Reveal file in Project Navigator

Reveal In Project Navigator

  • ⌘+J Move focus of current editor
  • ⌘+⇧+D in the UI Hierarchy Debugger

Cursor Navigation & Text Selection

  • ⌘+↑ or ↓ Move to end/beginning of a file. Combine with ⇧ to select text.
  • ⌘+→ or ← Move to end/beginning of a line. Combine with ⇧ to select text.
  • ⌥+→ or ← Move to end/beginning of a word. Combine with ⇧ to select text.
  • ⌘+⌃+⇧+→ or ← Camel case sensitive text selection

Text Editing

  • ⌘+L jump to a specific line
  • ⌘+⇧+L Show Library (Code Snippets or Interface Builder views)

Library

  • In the Jump bar: You can filter files or function by typing
  • ⌘+↑+⌃ Show generated Swift interface (Only properties and method declarations)
  • ⌥+ drag cursor up/down: multiple cursors
  • ⌃+I to automatically indent them
  • ⌘+⌥+[ or ] Move a line upwards/downwards
  • ⌘+⌥+← or → Fold/Unfold (see more variants in Editor > Code Folding)
  • ⌘++ or - Increase/Decrease font size
  • ⌘+⌃+E Edit All in Scope

Edit All in Scope

Cleaning

  • ⌘+⇧+K Clean build folder
  • ⌘+K Clean console (also works on Safari's inspector)

Searching

  • ⌘+⇧+F Search in Workspace/Project (Same as ⌘+4)
  • ⌘+F Search in current file
  • Select code, then ⌘+E to open the search box with the selection
  • ⌘+G goes to the next occurrence; ⌘+⇧+G to the previous

Miscellaneous

  • ⌥+ click on a type to show popover documentation

Documentation popover

Finder:

  • ↵ on a file to rename; space to show Quick Look
  • Install quicklook plugins/extensions
  • Folders in Xcode or Finder (or any other native mac app using NSOutlineView): Click the arrow +⌥ to recursively collapse or expand nested folders

Recursively expand or collapse folders

  • Copy file as path

Terminal:

  • Use aliases to ease running frequent and/or long commands
  • xed . - opens a Workspace (or a Project if a workspace doesn't exists) in the existing directory

Apps I Can't Live Without

Raycast:

  • Imagine Terminal and Spotlight had a baby
  • Run custom scripts:
    • Clear derived data
    • Convert pasteboard (ex.: HEX to RGB)
    • Open commonly used directories
  • Community based repo for scripts

Pastebot:

  • Clipboard History: Never be afraid of copying something and losing a copied content
  • Sequential Paste
  • Filters: transform clipboard data

Legend

  • ⌘ Command
  • ⇧ Shift
  • ⌥ Option (or Alt)
  • ⌃ Control (or Ctrl)
  • ← Left Arrow
  • → Right Arrow
  • ↑ Up Arrow
  • ↓ Down Arrow
  • ↵ Enter/return

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