The iOS Developer (and macOS) Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

• Xcode
  • Showing/Hiding Panels
  • Opening and Navigating Files
  • Cursor Navigation & Text Selection
  • Text Editing
  • Searching
  • Cleaning

• Finder
• Terminal
• Apps I Can't Live Without
  • Raycast
  • Pastebot

• Legend

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

• ⌘+⌥+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

• ⌘+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)

• 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

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

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

- 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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