With this release, Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE ...

According to an announcement from GitHub, Copilot is coming to Xcode as an extension. Copilot license holders can access the public preview and get it installed by following the getting started guide.

GitHub Copilot for Xcode offers multiple useful features. Code completions with real-time code suggestions. Multi-language support, including Swift and Objective-C. Multiline suggestions for code.

To try out the public preview of GitHub Copilot for Xcode, developers must have a valid Copilot license. Then you need to follow a step-by-step guide available on the GitHub website.

GitHub Copilot now supports multiple AI models, allowing developers to choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT4o variants.

With GitHub Copilot for Xcode, developers can use Microsoft AI for code completion and as a chat window. The software saves a few detours.

In the wake of Microsoft’s release of its GitHub Copilot tool, Apple could soon follow suit with a new version of Xcode that includes generative AI (genAI) capabilities designed to help ...