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Whether you're just learning how to code, you're studying computer science, or you're a well-seasoned Mac developer
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I have three apps that'll help make your life easier. And all of these are themselves open source
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The first is an app by Paul Hudson, and it's called Control Room
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This turbocharges the Xcode simulator. It's always good practice to test your app in a variety of different conditions
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and Control Room lets you simulate bad or unreliable Wi-Fi coverage, weird geographic locations, suddenly revoked app permissions, and more
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With one button click, you can trigger iCloud syncing and copy stuff to and from the clipboard
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between your Mac and the simulator. And it's really easy to make both screen recordings and GIFs
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Next up is an app called Quark, and this gives you a super easy-to-use interface for Homebrew
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Homebrew is, of course, a really popular package manager, but sometimes it can be really hard to remember the terminal commands
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Well, with Quark, you can see everything you have installed in this little sidebar here on the left
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If you click on one, you can see what dependencies it has with other packages you have installed
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You have one button right here where you can pin it to a specific version to prevent it from updating
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And you can start an update just by clicking this refresh button in the toolbar
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If you want to add a new package, you just click this plus here. And what's really great about it is that it's actually a search field
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You don't need to type in the exact name. So if I just type in FFmpeg, I don't even know what I'm looking for here
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I'll see a full list that I can install with one click. I encourage you to buy the app and support the developer if you can afford to do so
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but you can also build it yourself from the GitHub. Last but not least is an app called Xcodes
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This makes installing updates and managing versions of Xcode super easy. So maybe you're developing an app for the next major version of iOS
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but you also need to use the old version of Xcode to support your existing apps on the App Store
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Xcodes makes it super simple. You can browse all the versions and filter between pre-releases and final releases
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Install them with just one click. You can change which version is the active version
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But the real kicker is in the settings page. Go to the Experiments tab and check this box that says Faster Unzip
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This uses a special algorithm that takes full advantage of Swift concurrency
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It'll light up all the cores on your Mac, so you can get up to 70% faster unzips
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It's super helpful. You can get notifications when new versions are available and have them install fully automatically
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I highly recommend it. Links to all of these projects, along with their article version of this video, are in the description
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I'm Dgriffin Jones with Cult of Mac
