I have an app which contains an SQLite database. I have just upgraded to Lion and xCode 4.3.2 and when I now drag and drop a new version of the database in xCode I get a box which asks if I want to "add the file to targets".
The box is not ticked by default. Is this correct or should I be adding an SQLite database to targets (and what does this mean) ?
Thanks !
A target specifies a product to build and contains the instructions for building the product from a set of files in a project or workspace - (Apple's Documentation)
Since you project may contain more than one targets (products) what XCode asks you basically is whether you want to include this asset in the target (so to have access to it).
Of course you should add the SQLite file to the target for which you want to use it. It means that you want to attach the file to specified target, In case of many targets you might want to add particular file to specific target.
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I have an existing iPhone app (made on a previous version of XCode by a colleague) that I would like to import into XCode. I have the files FirstViewController.h, .m, and .xib files as well as the ones for the other views that were all renamed. I also have the supporting files, such as the sqlite database that is being used, images, the AppDelegate files, and so on. However, I was given all of these files without the .xcodeproj file. I have been trying to recreate the app given all of these files, but to no luck. Can anyone please give me any hints or direction as to how I should try and recreate this app?
If you absolutely cannot get ahold of the original Xcode project file, I would recommend just going through the standard New Project wizard to create a new project, and then import your existing files into the new project. This would involve, at a minimum:
Launch Xcode (the latest available version)
Create a new project by choosing File menu > New > Project
Choose an iOS application project template which most closely resembles your application
Follow the rest of the wizard steps to create your project
Once you have your new project, import the existing files:
For each type of file, right click in one of the file groups in the Project Navigator in the left-hand sidebar and select 'Add Files to …', then follow the prompts to import your file(s)
Adjust your code to build properly, using Product > Build and Product > Run as needed.
The iOS App Programming Guide can likely answer a lot of general questions about how to lay out your app structure, set up build settings, etc. Code signing and Deployment Target are two important project-specific settings you'll need to configure, which can be done using the project settings editor by selecting the very top row (where it says your project's name) in the Project Navigator. That should hopefully get you started.
Basically I want to make an independent copy of my Xcode project and all of my files. How can I do this? I'm researching graphing frameworks and I want to use the same UI for each.
Seconding #zoul's comment, this can be accomplished in Xcode 4.5 with four steps.
In Finder, duplicate the project folder. Do not update the .xcodeproj file name.
In Xcode, rename the project. Accept the proposed changes.
Still in Xcode, rename the scheme in "Manage Schemes".
In Info.plist, rename your Bundle identifier.
Few months ago, I had the need to create a different applications with the same source code.
I didn't wanted to copy the full directory, so I came up with a procedure that allowed me to mantain the source code in one place and create many different apps based on the same source code.
My procedure is the following:
duplicate the target to make a new target and change the name to the new name
change the name of the product and info.plist in the build options (select the new target and click info button), make sure this is for All Configurations
rename the info.plist file created at the duplication to "newnameInfo".plist (click on the file and then info button and pick the target)
add icon.png to the resources for the specific target.
change the name of the icon
in the NewnameInfo.plist change the icon name to icon_xxx and the bundle identifier com.yourdomain.newname
in language/other flags you can have a flag to check at the code.
create a new APP_ID in the iOS Provisional Portal
if APN is used, configure the APN BEFORE creating the development profile
create a new development & distribution (ad-hoc or appstore)
in Target (info) choose the right profile for the code sign
I hope this helps.
--nnahum
Go to your project folder. Right click on it. Select "duplicate".
Is there something you want to achieve that this doesn't accomplish?
Copy and paste your project folder. Open the new folder and open the Xcode project file. Select the project name in the "Project Navigator" on the left side and then in "File Inspector" on the right hand side, change the name of the project under Identity and Type.
That way you will have a duplicate project with two different names.
Hope this helps!
How can I restore Xcode project settings? I can't see few settings (like Targeted Device Family, iPhone OS Deployment Target, etc.) after I gave my Macbook to my friend. :(
I also saw that the info.plist file was not in the project, I recovered it via TimeMachine though, the Base SDK is also missing. :( She messed all things up, I don't know why she went in there. Anyways, is there any way to restore the settings?
Unfortunately, the snapshot that I have is also very old. :(
No way to restore them. You can set the base sdk on the project info screen.
Project > Edit Project Settings > Base SDK, Check the same for your Target.
Is this issue occurring for a specific project, or all projects? If you create a new project, what happens?
I forget the exact syntax, but different versions of XCode handle project files slightly differently. A new SDK (and version of XCode) couldn't read my project file right (same symptoms you explain).
In my case, there were 2 different SDK settings in the project file due to 2 separate versions of XCode editing the file (this could be very likely if you restored from backup and had upgraded SDKs in the interim).
Look for something like:
SDKROOT = iphoneos4.2;
Or really, just look around the text that contains the build settings (all of your build settings are stored in the file in flat text) -- you may see something related to SDKs where there are 2 lines very similar right next to each other. That'd probably be your problem. If you don't know which to delete, try both and then re-set the setting using the interface.
Of course in any case, you should back up your project file (project.pbxproj) before trying any of this.
I like to keep a store-bought version of my iPhone apps on my phone so that I can reproduce any customer issues that come up, but I obviously also want to run the most current development version. I can install both (one from iTunes, one from xCode) but I'm interested in ways that I'm better able to tell the two apart. I could just change the name or icon temporarily, but that doesn't seem very failsafe, i.e. I might forget and ship it with the wrong icon.
Is there a happy funtime developer way to do this?
I was inspired by Eric's idea of adding a user-defined setting to the project but I didn't want to run a script every time I built the project.
We know that the iPhone looks for icon files named "Icon.png" by default. It turns out that the "Icon File" setting in the project plist isn't necessary at all if you've named your icon properly. However, if there is no file named "Icon.png" in the project, xCode looks at the value of the "Icon File" setting.
I set a user-defined setting in "Debug" called "Icon_Name" to a non-standard icon name, "DevIcon.png" and "ReleaseIcon.png" for the "Release" config. The "Icon File" setting in the project plist can now be set to ${ICON_NAME} and will take on the value of whatever config file we're using. Now building under two different configurations does use two different icons.
Edit: For multiple icons (high res, small, ipad, etc) I made a slightly different approach. The user-defined setting is now "IconPrepend" which is "Dev" for debug and "Release" for release config. I'm now using "Icon Files" (rather than "Icon File") in the info plist which takes an array of strings. Each string is prepended with ${ICONPREPEND} so that debug configurations look for "DevIcon.png" or "DevIcon#2x.png" and release configurations look for "ReleaseIcon.png" or "ReleaseIcon#2x.png".
Here's an idea - if you set a User-Defined Setting in your Project Build properties for Debug only along the lines of USE_DEV_ICON=YES (or something). Then, using the "Run Script" option in your Build Target you could copy different icons based on which Active Configuration you called.
Something along the lines of (pseudo-code):
if ($USE_DEV_ICON == YES)
cp DevIcon.png Icon.png
else
cp RealIcon.png Icon.png
Then every time you build, depending on the active configuration, it will copy the correct icon.
Most probably there is no other way. Your app store version and development version is completely different to the OS. If you want to distinguish, you need to change the icon or name. You can also include some debugging label (e.g. version number) in your development version, but you may also forget to remove this.
Maybe you'd just buy a second iPhone? Seriously. On your place I'd ask the same question as you do, but I will definitely take such a solution in mind. If I was an iPhone (or whatever other specific platform) developer, I'd most probably have more than one.
Couldn't you make a new target which has a different Bundle name in the Info.plist file, and use this target whenever you want to build the app to run on your iPhone?
I searched for a long time on stackoverflow using every keyword I could think of to solve this. I am programming for iphone and I have a lite and paid version of my app. I followed the instructions here Creating Lite Versions of iPhone Games / Apps for duplicating the target. This works and now I am working on slimming down the lite version.
Main problem? Images. The lite version needs to have several hundred less images than the paid version. So, I made 2 groups in XCode. One "Folder Group" in Xcode - named "FreeImages" and another "ProImages". I want all FreeImages only to be included in the lite app and all FreeImages and ProImages to be in the paid app. I do not care that XCode considers these Groups to be Virtual Folders. I reversed the instructions to a point and have an environment flag (-D) set in XCode "PLUS_VERSION" I want XCode to basically do the following:
If (PLUS_VERSION)
{
copy contents of FreeImages *and* ProImages where normally they go
}
else
{
copy contents of FreeImages where they normally go.
}
Anyone know where to start to tell XCode to conditionally copy contents of groups into the target?
For each resource (or folder of resources) you want to direct to a specific target, you can click on the resource and inspect it (either via right-clicking and selecting Get Info or by clicking on the Inspect toolbar option). Within that info dialog will be a tab called Targets, where you can check the targets you want the resource (or even source code file) to be incorporated into, and uncheck the ones you don't.
Alternatively, I believe you can navigate to the target itself in Xcode, click on the triangle next to its name to expand the list of build phases, expand the Copy Bundle Resources build phase, and manually delete from the list there any resources you don't wish to have copied over into that target.