Lifting the hood on Build Cache for Xcode
With Xcode 26, Apple has finally introduced Xcode Compilation Caching: a major leap forward for iOS developers, who no longer have to wait around for slow builds while their CI pipelines recompile code that hasn’t changed. At Bitrise, our Build Cache product already supports Bazel and Gradle, so the logical next step was to introduce support for compilation caching in Xcode. In this blog post, we’re lifting the hood on how we built this new feature.