Origonally I thought XCode was pretty good, indeed it does do somethings better than Visual Studio. However, the support for c++ is lacking, especially if you use templates. XCode can’t display template variables in the debugger window, nor does “Intelisense” work. One of my projects has a tonne of template based classes, so that’s what pushed me to see if I could do the work on Windows instead.
The PowerVR SDK comes with a Windows OpenGL ES emulator. It didn’t take me long to get my code working with that, because all my code is portable: c++, stl and OpenGL. Straightaway my productivity doubled. So, now I do the implementation and debugging on Visual Studio and periodically switch to Mac to make device builds.
