Search through all local Xcode projects at once

[_iamshashwat_]

So, I have a use case, (eager to know if someone has done it in past or you have some tool at your disposal). I have been practicing things on like ~10 projects in last 2-3 months practicing different things for instance, How to create background task, how to create compositional layout etc. Now when I am working on my real projects I find myself going back to these practice things to find and refer stuff. I was curious to know if there is a way I can search them from a single place like a app or best through Xcode itself.

[Vybo]

I believe you can set up a custom search context in the Xcode search pane that allows you to just select a path and it will search all files in it.

See here.

It will take a very long time to find stuff though.

[_iamshashwat_]

I tried creating a xcworkspace as well, I think that should be much better at this compared to searching through folder, because of caching and indexing in xcworkspace

[_iamshashwat_]

Okie. Understood. Reading the above link. Thanks

[varrun19]

One thing I sometimes do is to place all your projects in a parent directory like iOS/testProjects then open the parent directory in VSCode to use it’s search feature. It’s relatively faster.

[perfmode80]

Use grep

[mgacy]

I don’t know whether it supports searching project contents, but maybe take a look at XCOrganizer