With the debut of the Mac App Store, Apple made the Xcode package available to people without the need to sign up for an ADC account, but charges $4.99 for the download.

So I moved it all to the trash and decided to install fresh from the app store. I go to the app store and get to the Xcode page, where I see the "Free" button.

Xcode is available for free from Apple’s Developer Site, but you’ll have to do just a bit of work to get it. Before proceeding, be aware that Xcode is a large download—nearly 752MB, to be exact.

If you're frustrated by slow downloads of Xcode updates, here's a way to get them from Apple directly to your Mac as quickly as possible.

But I'm going full geek. Together, we're going to use Xcode and build our own sample app, which we'll then use to install the full distribution of the latest Ubuntu release, Noble Numbat.

Apple also has recommended that developers install a clean copy of Xcode downloaded directly from Apple’s Developer Portal (via the Mac App Store) before submitting a new app or app update to ...

Apple Apple asks developers to ensure their Xcode install isn’t infected September 22, 2015 - 5:27 pm ...

Now any Mac OS X user can download and install Xcode without registering with Apple, though the $4.99 charge is seen by some developers as a bit of a snub since Mac OS X developer tools were ...

Xcode 7 lets anyone install apps locally to their iOS devices, which is how this whole process can work. Next, download the open-source Flux iOS Xcode project from the Flux website.