
This comes with the bonus option of being able to download any version you'd like. For the latest version and a theoretically "easy" installation, you can use the App Store. This will return you back to the home folder. If you really want to, you can first type cd before typing the commands in the below steps. This means that you don't need to navigate to any particular folder. These commands can be typed into your present working directory. Note that I have listed some Terminal commands in the steps below. Here's an overview of the steps to install Xcode Then you'll need the command line tool, which is yet another 1.5 gigabytes. When you unzip it, that's another 17 gigabytes.

xip file (v11.4.1 at the time of writing) is ~8 gigabytes zipped.

And a few minor ones in-between the two major ones. Just like other Operating Systems, Xcode gets a major upgrade every year.

This year’s update version of Xcode is Xcode 11. It can be to install a self-developed app or project on your iPhone. Apart from that, there are couple of other reasons for downloading Xcode. You need to use Xcode for developing apps for these platforms. Xcode is a development application used for developing apps for Apple Eco-system.
