In Eclipse you can create a folder and name it, say, "unused", to keep currently unused files (incomplete code, resources for future use, etc)
which are ignored by project builder. Can I have something similar with Xcode?
If I move a file to a project folder without inserting it with Xcode, it may be OK, and I will be able to see it while opening in Finder. However, it will be more convenient to have it listed by Project Navigator.
As far as I am concerned, it's not possible. Though, you can comment all of your code in one click to momentarily disable it.
Press command + A;
Right click and select Comment Selection.
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How do I rename a project in Xcode 5?
What steps do I need to take?
In the past this was always a very tricky manual process.
Well, the answer is very very very Apple simple in Xcode 5!
In the Project Navigator on the left side, click 2 x slowly and the Project file name will be editable.
Type the new name.
A sheet will appear with a warning and will list all the items Xcode 5 believes it should change.
You can probably trust it, but you should inspect it.
The list will include the info.plist and various files, but also all the relevant strings from nib/xib files like MainMenu menus.
Accept the changes and you will get the prompt to save a snapshot of the project.
Always make a snapshot when Xcode asks, it will be useful to restore if something does not work.
Change the project name:-
Click on the target in xcode, on the right in "Identify and Type" under name change the name and press the ENTER button on your keyboard.
A window will appear confirming the change and what it will change. Once you confirm it will make the changes.
Change the root folder name:-
Go to the project directory and rename the root folder,
Open the project and u will find all the file are missing, u need to add all the files of project again
Right click the project bundle .xcodeproj file and select “Show Package Contents” from the context menu. Open the .pbxproj file with any text editor.
4>Search and replace any occurrence of the original folder name with the new folder name.
5>Save the file.
Change the Scheme name:-
rename .xscheme file
If your Project is static framework then make sure your header file has public target membership
I really recommend just opening the folder in a general editor such as Sublime Text, and doing a find/replace across the whole folder. The other methods I found were unstable, particularly when combined with .xcworkspace and cocoapods.
In Xcode 8.0, to rename your project, just go through the following instructions as described in Xcode help:
1- Select your project in the project navigator.
2- In the Identity and Type section of the File inspector, enter a new
name into the Name field.
3- Press Return.
A dialog is displayed, listing the items in your project that can be
renamed. The dialog includes a preview of how the items will appear
after the change.
4- To selectively rename items, disable the checkboxes for any items
you don’t want to rename. To rename only your app, leave the app
selected and deselect all other items.
5- Click Rename.
Source: http://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/8.0/#/dev3db3afe4f
Xcode 6 (beta 6 as of now) seems to be not very reliable with renaming projects. For me it didn't rename several of the files and groups. It also doesn't rename the physical folder the project is in. To rename my project to be sure that everything is clean I went the extra length to create a new project with the new name and copy over all the files. The assets are easy to copy but groups have to be recreated. The biggest issue with this however are CoreData data model files. Trying to simply copy this will result in a corrupt model file, even though everything looks like it is alright.
When you re-name the project name in XCode5 then info.plist entry removed from Targets --- > General ---> identity. You just need to mention it again.
In Xcode 7, renaming a project can still break your app. Make sure you backed it up before trying it.
Click on the project icon and find the project name in the inspector pane. If you change it there, Xcode will ask you if you want to rename related files. Might work. But if not, try this brute force approach:
Close Xcode
Using an advanced text editor like Sublime Text or Atom, open the
root folder. It will open the folder structure.
Perform a Global Search and Replace (it's probably cmd + shift + f), and
replace My Wrong App Name with New App. If your project name contained spaces, also search for My_Wrong_App_Name and replace
with
New_App. This changes all file contents.
Now you need to find all
the files inside the project with your old app name. Rename them
all, also the folders.
Important: Open the project file with
right click > Show Package Contents, and rename all files in there.
Reopen your Xcode project or workspace. Compile.
If you use Pods, you need to open the pods project as well and change the files in there.
Here is another great example which works well with xcode 5
How do I rename a project in Xcode 5?
What steps do I need to take?
In the past this was always a very tricky manual process.
Well, the answer is very very very Apple simple in Xcode 5!
In the Project Navigator on the left side, click 2 x slowly and the Project file name will be editable.
Type the new name.
A sheet will appear with a warning and will list all the items Xcode 5 believes it should change.
You can probably trust it, but you should inspect it.
The list will include the info.plist and various files, but also all the relevant strings from nib/xib files like MainMenu menus.
Accept the changes and you will get the prompt to save a snapshot of the project.
Always make a snapshot when Xcode asks, it will be useful to restore if something does not work.
Change the project name:-
Click on the target in xcode, on the right in "Identify and Type" under name change the name and press the ENTER button on your keyboard.
A window will appear confirming the change and what it will change. Once you confirm it will make the changes.
Change the root folder name:-
Go to the project directory and rename the root folder,
Open the project and u will find all the file are missing, u need to add all the files of project again
Right click the project bundle .xcodeproj file and select “Show Package Contents” from the context menu. Open the .pbxproj file with any text editor.
4>Search and replace any occurrence of the original folder name with the new folder name.
5>Save the file.
Change the Scheme name:-
rename .xscheme file
If your Project is static framework then make sure your header file has public target membership
I really recommend just opening the folder in a general editor such as Sublime Text, and doing a find/replace across the whole folder. The other methods I found were unstable, particularly when combined with .xcworkspace and cocoapods.
In Xcode 8.0, to rename your project, just go through the following instructions as described in Xcode help:
1- Select your project in the project navigator.
2- In the Identity and Type section of the File inspector, enter a new
name into the Name field.
3- Press Return.
A dialog is displayed, listing the items in your project that can be
renamed. The dialog includes a preview of how the items will appear
after the change.
4- To selectively rename items, disable the checkboxes for any items
you don’t want to rename. To rename only your app, leave the app
selected and deselect all other items.
5- Click Rename.
Source: http://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/8.0/#/dev3db3afe4f
Xcode 6 (beta 6 as of now) seems to be not very reliable with renaming projects. For me it didn't rename several of the files and groups. It also doesn't rename the physical folder the project is in. To rename my project to be sure that everything is clean I went the extra length to create a new project with the new name and copy over all the files. The assets are easy to copy but groups have to be recreated. The biggest issue with this however are CoreData data model files. Trying to simply copy this will result in a corrupt model file, even though everything looks like it is alright.
When you re-name the project name in XCode5 then info.plist entry removed from Targets --- > General ---> identity. You just need to mention it again.
In Xcode 7, renaming a project can still break your app. Make sure you backed it up before trying it.
Click on the project icon and find the project name in the inspector pane. If you change it there, Xcode will ask you if you want to rename related files. Might work. But if not, try this brute force approach:
Close Xcode
Using an advanced text editor like Sublime Text or Atom, open the
root folder. It will open the folder structure.
Perform a Global Search and Replace (it's probably cmd + shift + f), and
replace My Wrong App Name with New App. If your project name contained spaces, also search for My_Wrong_App_Name and replace
with
New_App. This changes all file contents.
Now you need to find all
the files inside the project with your old app name. Rename them
all, also the folders.
Important: Open the project file with
right click > Show Package Contents, and rename all files in there.
Reopen your Xcode project or workspace. Compile.
If you use Pods, you need to open the pods project as well and change the files in there.
Here is another great example which works well with xcode 5
I pasted all files of one folder into another, now it is showing something like this,,
How can I remove Project within Project and Make one Main Root.
This one is super easy to fix -- What you've accidentally done is drop the 'ShopCadeFinal.xcodeproj' into your Project Navigator. It is important to recognize that the Project Navigator view of your project is a tree that you manage and not necessarily a 1:1 representation of the filesystem. If you'd rather, you can think of each of the items in the Project Navigator as a link or shortcut to a file on disk. This means that your project organization can in fact be different from that of the on-disk filesystem. Good in that you can safely reorganize files in your project without having to move files around your filesystem or SCM, but that flexibility comes as the risk of accidentally duplicating entries in your project just as you've done with ShopCadeFinal.xcodeproj.
Ok...so how do I fix it?
You are probably going to kick yourself because this is so easy:
Click on the nested 'ShopCadeFinal.xcodeproj' item
Push your delete button.
Select 'Remove Reference'.
The shortcut to the nested .xcodeproj is gone!
Won't that delete the source code of my actual project file?
Nope! Not at all as long as you've selected the 'Remove Reference' option instead of 'Move to Trash'. The nuances about the Project Navigator being a collection of links or shortcuts from the mini-lecture at the top of this answer is the key -- You are simply removing the duplicate .xcodeproj reference in your Project Navigator, not actually deleting anything from disk.
Ok, I have other files I duplicated. How do I deal with those?
In just the same way -- select the duplicate reference, push delete and select 'Remove Reference'.
I ran into some other quirky issue...
Tack a note on this answer with what you are seeing and lets see if we can figure it out!
In Xcode I use a task-based tabbed workflow (a separate tab for editing, UI/Modeling, building, debugging, etc.). I accomplish this using Behaviors (see the Custom section in the attached screen shot). When I create a new Project I use press ⌘+1, ⌘+2, etc. to quickly setup all of my task tabs.
My issue is that when I do this for a newly created Project all of the tabs display the source, storyboards, etc. from my most recently open Project. How often do you think this is useful or the desired behavior? I realize that one of the great things about tabs is that they remember their state and this is helpful. But as far as the source files that are initially displayed, this is a real pain. I do not want to see files from other (generally unrelated) projects.
Now what I just did as an experiment was open Project A and setup all of my tabs and ensured that each tab contained a source file from Project A. Then I quit Xcode and moved Project A a new location on the file system. When I opened Project B and created all of my tabs they were, as desired, empty.
I realize that I'm just going to receive the canonical "File a Radar" here but in the off chance that there is a workaround (NOT moving files) or a preference I could set, I figured I'd at least ask.
Thanks in advance,
CS
One would think that adding a project to a Workspace in Xcode would be intuitive.
1) But when you add a new project it is added within the existing project - It must be a bug, or is there actually a reason.
2) How do you add a project then (ctr + right click et.)
You could use the plus (+) button on the lower left corner of Xcode IDE to add a new project to a workspace. You must have first a blank workspace, which you could use the menu (New/Workspaces with short cuts ^%N).
To morning I spend some time doing what you asked to. so here are the steps (you can skip if you already have followed some).
Create a new blank work space
Add a project to it by clicking File->Add new files to "Your workSpace" or "command+option+A"
Choose your project folder Or yourproject.xcodeproj file
Just let the indexing finish properly, and congratulations you have added a new project to your xcode work space successfully.
Note: Make sure that project which you are adding is not already opened, Xcode get lil sensitive about that and doesn't show files tree in workspace in that case.
My answer pertains to XCode 5, but should pertain to XCode 4 as well.
In typical Apple fashion, they have given you multiple ways to do the almost the same thing. Very confusing and annoying. There are three ways, and only one way pertains to the original posters question:
(1) Use File --> Add Files to ...
Problem with this, is that it will only add files to workspace if NO project has been selected.
Problem with THAT, is that once you select a project, there is no way I know of to unselect it.
(2) Use the "+" in the lower-left corner.
Problem with that, it is equivalent to using the pull down menu (#1 above)
(3) Right click in the left pane (in an empty area), and you will see "Add files to "
This is the only right way to do it, as it guarantees that the file will be added to the workspace, and not any selected project.
Try all three methods after selecting an existing project, and you will see what I mean.
Based on my previous experience with XCode, Apple will take about 10 more years to fix this sort of thing.
One would think that adding a project to a Workspace in Xcode would be
intuitive.
Of course not, this is Apple, only usable for certain experts...
1) But when you add a new project it is added within the existing project -
It must be a bug, or is there actually a reason
You did miss the drop down selection list "Add to:" in the last of three dialog pages, the place where the location of the .xcodeproj file is specified. There you can select the Workspace you are currently using. So simply use "File" "New..." "Project...", give it a name and select from templates, and NEVER intuitiveley double click on the directory where to place the project file, but be sure to adjust the selection drop down list to your currently open workspace. Of course this choice is never preselected.