MacOS – Copying Xcode installation from one Mac to another

macosxcode

I have installed 3 different versions of Xcode on my Mac.

Can I just copy the /Applications/Xcode*.app app bundles from my Mac and put it on other 10 Macs I have? I don't want to go through the hassle of downloading and installing it again.

Has anyone done this successfully?

NOTE: I saw another question on copying to an external drive. I am NOT doing that. Just copying from one machine to another and keeping the installations in /Applications folder.

Best Answer

I Wanted to close the loop on this. Yes, it works just fine. We create a .xip file of the installation and slap it on other boxes.