How to transfer Xcode installations between Macs?

Question

I'm going to be away from my home OSX machine and I'm going to be using another one. I won't have good internet connection where I'm going, so I can't download anything from the Mac App Store. Is there a way I can easily transfer over my existing Xcode installation onto a large enough USB flashdrive and reinstall it that way. I know that I can drag and drop, but from my experience from MSVS, compilers and IDEs seems to have multiple dependency files scattered around.

Answer 1

When you use Xcode 4 everything you really need, is in the Xcode.app bundle in your Applications folder. You can just copy this to your new computer.
If you want you can also copy ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Xcode where plug-ins may reside.
An other interesting folder is ~/Library/Developer. There are amongst others Docsests, iOS device logs, etc. stored. You may take a look yourself in there, to see if you need to copy this.

Answer 2

Steps

1- Copy Xcode.app file and paste to new mac's Application folder

2- Copy ~/Library/Developer/ to new mac's location ~/Library/Developer/ folder

3-

Issue - Xcode won't start, stuck on 'Verifying “Xcode”…'

Solution xattr -d com.apple.quarantine '/Applications/Xcode.app'

By running the above command, you are giving permission to Xcode to install it without verifying it.

4- open Xcode in the Application directory.

Cheers !!!!