Did anybody have problems with migrating Xcode3.2x projects to Xcode4? - iphone

At the moment I'm in a production cycle with submitting updates to my App every 2 weeks in average. I'm thinking of migrating to Xcode4 right now. Did anybody have problems with migrating projects or archiving or submitting to store? If so, best practises in solving such issues are very welcome.

I haven't experienced any problems and the transition guide claims:
Working on a Project in Xcode 4 Leaves
Your Xcode 3 Preferences Untouched
I've also read somewhere else (but can't find it) that Xcode 4 uses the Xcode 3 project format unchanged. So far I can confirm this.

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Is that a bug for WWDC 2014 Sample Code?

I have checked WWDC 2014 video about Changes in Core Data and I think it is great. However when I tried to use the sample code in Apple website: Earthquakes: Using Second Core Data Stack to Fetch Data in Background
I faced a lot of error shown. Even I tried to fix these errors but some of them I could not understand. I just wonder it is the errors made by Apple developers or the errors for my Xcode 6 beta 4.
I would appreciate much if you could check for me to make sure what happened because I really need these changes in Core Data.
Thank you so much!
As you know Swift is still in beta. The sample project that you have mentioned above is not build using the latest swift version beta 4. They have made lot of changes from beta to beta. The compiler error shown will help you to fix those error's. You can even check the changes in beta 4 here

upgrading to iOS 7 and Xcode 5 - having issues with UIAccelerator, UIStringDrawing and NSObject

I updated my iPad to iOS 7, and discovered that the Enterprise app that I have been working on for over a year crashes. OK, no problem, I'll see where in Xcode it's crashing.
OK, Problem: I have to upgrade to Xcode 5 to debug iOS 7. OK, no problem, I'll upgrade to Xcode 5.
OK, Problem: The source code in Xcode 5 now shows 19 errors: One in NSObject.h, three in UIStringDrawing.h, and the rest in UIAccelerometer.h.
And, for a bonus, it adds one at the bottom, "Too many errors emitted, stopping now." Which is not all that comforting.
I've really scoured the internet for answers, but I must be using the wrong search terms because I am finding nothing that addresses this. Surely I am not the only one.
I have been developing iOS apps for almost two years now, I think, but I am still pretty stupid when it comes down to the nitty-gritty stuff. I usually just hit "Run" and hope it works. So far that has been a pretty effective strategy, but now I am stumped.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Except the obvious, being that I should have left everything well enough alone.
I will also have to update my previous app, because it has iOS 7 issues too, but it scares me to even think of it.
I appreciate any help anyone can give.
I found the answer here: http://blog.spacemanlabs.com/2013/09/how-to-support-old-ios-sdks-in-xcode-5/#comment-1056917662
After figuring out how to do all this, the app showed a couple more errors unrelated to the original problem. Turns out I had a couple of XIBs set for Autolayout. Those being disabled, the app worked great on my iOS 6 phone with Xcode 5.
Glad you were able to switch back to the iOS 6 SDK. I had the same errors in UIAccelerometer.h and NSObject.h, but wanted to stick with the iOS 7 SDK.
For me, these errors were the result of stray copies of UIKit.framework, Foundation.framework (And a couple of other frameworks) inside my project folder. These were seen by the linker, hence the "duplicate symbol" error messages thrown. As soon as I got rid of the frameworks in the project folder and re-linked to the frameworks in "Build Phases" -> "Link Binary With Libraries," everything built.

putpkt: Error and testing Core-Data Lightweight migration

I have an xcode project that has 4 targets (2 apps, 1 iPhone and 1 iPad version for each). I have recently implemented Core Data Lightweight Migration.
I am currently only testing two of the apps, the iPhone versions, call them App A and App B. I am able to run the current app store version of App A on my iPhone, then install my new version of App A to test the Lightweight Migration. It works fine, no problem.
Then, I try the same thing with App B. I am able to install the current app store version of App B on my iPhone no problem. BUT, when I try in install the new version of app B on my iPhone, I get the following error (or a variant of it) EVERY time: "putpkt: write failed, broken pipe"
I am confused since the two current versions are in the same project and have the exact same settings for every configuration (debug, release, distribution). The is not ad-hoc distribution.
Every post I have read for this error on this forum, and anywhere, suggests things like removing the app, restarting the device, restarting xcode, etc. And sure, I can get it to work that way. BUT I cannot test my migration that way.. If I remove the old version of the app from the device nothing is getting migrated!
I am pulling my hair out over this. The two apps were originally in two different projects, and I added App B to the App A project as a new target - that is the only thing I can think of, as I feel like I have looked at everything. I would really appreciate some help to figure out this problem. I feel sick about sending out a database update that I cannot test - I can't take the chance of corrupting people's data, especially when I have not offered a backup option until this current version. Ugh.
EDIT: when I try to run App B on the device without updating, I often get the following error:
Error Starting Executable... Don't know how to run. Try "help target".
EDIT: I think I am having this trouble because I renamed the product name for app B. I think this changed the bundle and will not allow me to migrate data. I will try to change it back and post an update. It seems like merge bundles IS working well for app A in the meantime.
Making sure the new project and the original project had the same product name and the same data model name fixed this problem for me.

Unable to find a document class... com.apple.InterfaceBuilder3.CocoaTouch.XIB

I have two versions of Xcode installed: Xcode 4 in /Developer/ and Xcode 3 in /User/Xcode3/.
While working on an iPhone app in Xcode 4 I suddenly got this error:
I have no idea where or why this has started. I thought it might be related to this post, but the main solution which has received 32 up votes does not work for me. I did notice that my Xcode 4 folder was missing the InterfaceBuilder app for some reason which I then copied and pasted from my Xcode 3 folder. Not that it made any difference.
Any ideas?
EDIT 1
Also, I should note that even though when I 'get info' on the project and it states that it defaults open to Xcode 4 when I double click on the project it opens with Xcode 3. Therefore I choose to open with Xcode 4. Still doesn't help.
EDIT 2
Also, when I click on the .xib files, I just see string values, no GUI.
I completely reinstalled Xcode 4 and that seemed to do the trick. But I must say I am quite paranoid when I open up projects. I have the impression that if I use the wrong version of Xcode with the wrong project this problem will come back.
Any illumination on this bug would be greatly appreciated.

Why does Xcode keep changing its active executable?

Something really weird is going on with Xcode and an iPhone project I'm working on, when I'm building for the simulator, the project has 2 active executables (MyApp - iPhone Simulator (2.0) and MyApp - iPhone Simulator (2.1)) Almost all of the time, I want to use the the 2.1 active executable, but Xcode will occasionally silently change to the 2.0 one.
There doesn't seem to be any pattern to this or any trigger that I can notice. Googling has found a couple of people out there who are having the same problem, but no solutions.
Help me stackoverflow-kenobi! You're my only hope!
Ok, it was a bug. The good news: it's fixed in the fresh new 2.2 SDK.
That is weird -- I've been doing iPhone/XCode development for a while, now, and never seen anything like that.
Are you absolutely certain that you're not poking around some place that's causing the change?
Might you have a corrupt XCode or .xcodeproj? If it persists, I'd try re-creating my project and, if that didn't help, reinstalling XCode.
Very strange, indeed...!
I have the same problem. I need to set the active Executable to 2.1 for openAL to work. The pattern I observed is that it switches back everytime I switch to export to the device. Isn't that what happens with you?
I've seen the issue commented a couple of times on the official iphone dev forum, but no solutions. Looks like a bug.
So.. why are you actually doing that? It is probably better, given the nature of the iPhone (with multiple frameworks for multiple architectures), to set up different Targets for your various projects. The executable produced will be the result of the build phases for your targets.